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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2372
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Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2008-2372

Description: The Linux kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of calls to the get_user_pages function, which lacks a ZERO_PAGE optimization and results in allocation of "useless newly zeroed pages."

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43550 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1 SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00009.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA30901 Secunia Advisory: SA31202 Secunia Advisory: SA31628 Secunia Advisory: SA32393 Secunia Advisory: SA32485 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html MLIST http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0804.3/3203.html MISC http://new-ubuntu-news.blogspot.com/2008/06/re-pending-stable-kernel-security_25.html CONFIRM http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.9 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0207 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=89f5b7da2a6bad2e84670422ab8192382a5aeb9f

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