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CVE-2008-2372

CVE-2008-2372 PUBLISHED

Reported by redhat · Published July 2, 2008

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."

Affected Products

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Timeline

  • Jul 2, 2008 CVE Published
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