Security Advisory

CVE-2004-0491

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-02-06 05:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 00:17:15
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.