CVE-2008-2372 Information

Description

The Linux kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of calls to the get_user_pages function which lacks a ZERO_PAGE optimization and results in allocation of \useless newly zeroed pages.\

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=89f5b7da2a6bad2e84670422ab8192382a5aeb9f http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.9 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00009.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html http://new-ubuntu-news.blogspot.com/2008/06/re-pending-stable-kernel-security_25.html http://secunia.com/advisories/30901 http://secunia.com/advisories/30982 http://secunia.com/advisories/31202 http://secunia.com/advisories/31628 http://secunia.com/advisories/32393 http://secunia.com/advisories/32485 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0207 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1 http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0804.3/3203.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43550 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2629 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9383