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Re: CVE request: kernel: oom: use pte pages in OOM score

From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:27:10 +0530

On 06/28/2011 09:32 AM, Eugene Teo wrote:

PTE pages are invisible memory user. A local, unprivileged user could
leverage this flaw to trigger a denial of service. AFAIK, this was
introduced in a63d83f427f (v2.6.36-rc1), fixed in f755a042d (v2.6.39-rc6).

http://git.kernel.org/linus/a63d83f427f
http://git.kernel.org/linus/f755a042d


Assigned CVE-2011-2498


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Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Security Response Team

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CVE request: kernel: oom: use pte pages in OOM score Eugene Teo (Jun 27)
- Re: CVE request: kernel: oom: use pte pages in OOM score Huzaifa Sidhpurwala (Jun 27)