CVE-2008-2372

Description (CNA)

The Linux kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of calls to the get_user_pages function, which lacks a ZERO_PAGE optimization and results in allocation of "useless newly zeroed pages."

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0207
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32485
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32393
• http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0804.3/3203.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9383
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30982
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30901
• http://new-ubuntu-news.blogspot.com/2008/06/re-pending-stable-kernel-security_25.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00009.html
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=89f5b7da2a6bad2e84670422ab8192382a5aeb9f
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.9
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2629
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31628
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31202
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43550

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