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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2372
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CVE-2008-2372

Description:
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."

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43550

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1

SUSE
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00009.html
  http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA31202
  Secunia Advisory: SA31628
  Secunia Advisory: SA30901
  Secunia Advisory: SA32393
  Secunia Advisory: SA32485

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9383

MLIST
  http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0804.3/3203.html

MISC
  http://new-ubuntu-news.blogspot.com/2008/06/re-pending-stable-kernel-security_25.html

CONFIRM
  http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.9
  http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0207
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=89f5b7da2a6bad2e84670422ab8192382a5aeb9f


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