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Tracker / CVE-2011-2496

CVE-2011-2496

Medium 4.9

Integer overflow in the vma_to_resize function in mm/mremap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BUG_ON and system crash) via a crafted mremap system call that expands a memory mapping.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.38.8

Analysis

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