Security Advisory

CVE-2009-3888

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-11-16 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 06:45:50
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

The do_mmap_pgoff function in mm/nommu.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31.6, when the CPU lacks a memory management unit, allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via an application that attempts to allocate a large amount of memory.