[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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