Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's Transparent Huge Pages (THP) Creation

CVE-2011-0999 · MEDIUM Severity

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

mm/huge_memory.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc5 does not prevent creation of a transparent huge page (THP) during the existence of a temporary stack for an exec system call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application.

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