CVE-2005-4811 Information

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.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112323336017157 http://secunia.com/advisories/22292 http://secunia.com/advisories/22945 http://secunia.com/advisories/25714 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20362 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165345 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10976