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Tracker / CVE-2013-0309

CVE-2013-0309

Medium 4.7

arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h in the Linux kernel before 3.6.2, when transparent huge pages are used, does not properly support PROT_NONE memory regions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted application.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.6.1
redhat enterprise_linux

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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