CVE

CVE-2005-4811

Severity:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
31/12/2005
Last modified:
11/10/2017

Description

The hugepage code (hugetlb.c) in Linux kernel 2.6, possibly 2.6.12 and 2.6.13, in certain configurations, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering an mmap error before a prefault, which causes an error in the unmap_hugepage_area function.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.90 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
4.90
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test10:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test11:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test7:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test8:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.0:test9:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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