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linux — security advisory
Memory leak in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via invalid MAP_HUGETLB mmap operations.
- Products
- linux
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 3.2.19-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-2390
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:38 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Memory leak in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via invalid MAP_HUGETLB mmap operations.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2390
linux
Fixed versions: 3.2.19-1
linux
Fixed versions: 3.2.19-1
linux
Fixed versions: 3.2.19-1
Complete source record
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