[PATCH] [natty/omap4] CVE-2011-2479
Paolo Pisati
paolo.pisati at canonical.com
Fri Oct 14 14:10:56 UTC 2011
CVE-2011-2479:
It was found that an mmap() call with the MAP_PRIVATE flag on "/dev/zero"
would create transparent hugepages and trigger a certain robustness check.
A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service.
Cherry picked from natty/master.
Andrea Arcangeli (1):
mm: thp: fix /dev/zero MAP_PRIVATE and vm_flags cleanups -
CVE-2011-2479
include/linux/huge_mm.h | 2 +-
include/linux/mm.h | 3 ++-
mm/huge_memory.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
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1.7.5.4
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