CVE-2008-2372 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-2372 at MITRE

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."

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 402608 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:035, published Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2008:037, published Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2008:038, published Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 15:53:52 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:26:27 2023