CVE-2004-0491 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0491
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Description: The linux-2.4.21-mlock.patch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly maintain the mlock page count when one process unlocks pages that belong to another process, which allows local users to mlock more memory than specified by the rlimit.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SGI SAID Secunia Advisory: SA19607 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-472.html OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1117 MLIST http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108087017610947&w=2 CONFIRM BID 13769

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