CVE-2009-0024 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2009-0024
NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2009-0024

Description: The sys_remap_file_pages function in mm/fremap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.24.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to the vm_file structure member, and the mmap_region and do_munmap functions.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: MLIST http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/12/1 CONFIRM http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git;a=commit;h=8a459e44ad837018ea5c34a9efe8eb4ad27ded26 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.1 BID 33211

Return to the previous page.