[PATCH 0/1] [CVE-2012-2390] [LUCID] [NATTY] hugetlb: fix resv_map leak in error path

Brad Figg brad.figg at canonical.com
Thu Jul 5 21:40:32 UTC 2012


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.

Dave Hansen (1):
  hugetlb: fix resv_map leak in error path

 mm/hugetlb.c |   28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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1.7.9.5





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