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CVE-2012-2390

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
13/06/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
4.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.4.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.4:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.4:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.4:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.4:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.4:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.4:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.4:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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