CVE-2005-4811 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-4811
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Description: 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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SAID Secunia Advisory: SA22292 Secunia Advisory: SA22945 Secunia Advisory: SA25714 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html MLIST http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112323336017157 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm BID 20362

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