CVE-2012-2390

Public on 2012-06-13
Modified on 2014-09-14
Description
Memory leak in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via invalid MAP_HUGETLB mmap operations.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.9
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2012-10-08 ALAS-2012-133 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 4.9 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C