CVE-2005-4811

CVE-2005-4811 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The hugepage code (hugetlb.c) in Linux kernel 2.6, possibly 2.6.12 and 2.6.13, in certain configurations, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering an mmap error before a prefault, which causes an error in the unmap_hugepage_area function.

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