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Tracker / CVE-2009-3888

CVE-2009-3888

Medium 4.9

The do_mmap_pgoff function in mm/nommu.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31.6, when the CPU lacks a memory management unit, allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via an application that attempts to allocate a large amount of memory.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.31.5

Analysis

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