CVE-2010-1488

Publication date

2010-04-20 15:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The proc_oom_score function in fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.34-rc4 uses inappropriate data structures during selection of a candidate for the OOM killer, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified patterns of task creation.