CVE-2012-2390 - Conirostral Aggravation

Description

Memory leak in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via invalid MAP_HUGETLB mmap operations.

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/23/14 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.2 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=824345 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1535-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1515-1