CVE-2004-0491

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2004-06-21
Bugzilla:
1617210: CVE-2004-0491 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The linux-2.4.21-mlock.patch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly maintain the mlock page count when one process unlocks pages that belong to another process, which allows local users to mlock more memory than specified by the rlimit.

Find out more about CVE-2004-0491 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (kernel) RHSA-2005:472 2005-05-25

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