CVE-2011-4097
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Integer overflow in the oom_badness function in mm/oom_kill.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.8 on 64-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or process termination) by using a certain large amount of memory.
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Statement
This issue did not affect the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 as they did not backport the upstream commit f755a04 that introduced this. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0333.html.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score | 4.9 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| Access Vector | Local |
| Access Complexity | Low |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Complete |
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Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat MRG Grid for RHEL 6 Server v.2 (kernel-rt) | RHSA-2012:0333 | 2012-02-23 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 | realtime-kernel | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | kernel | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | kernel | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 | kernel | Not affected |
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank Shubham Goyal for reporting this issue.CVE description copyright © 2017, The MITRE Corporation