CVE-2008-2372

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-06-21
Bugzilla:
452666: CVE-2008-2372 kernel: Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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."

Find out more about CVE-2008-2372 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2008:0957 2008-11-04
MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server (kernel-rt) RHSA-2008:0585 2008-08-26

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