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Tracker / CVE-2011-2498

CVE-2011-2498

Medium 5.5

The Linux kernel from v2.3.36 before v2.6.39 allows local unprivileged users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by triggering creation of PTE pages.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · 2.3.36 → 2.6.39

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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