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CVE-2004-0491

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2004-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The linux-2.4.21-mlock.patch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly maintain the mlock page count when one process unlocks pages that belong to another process, which allows local users to mlock more memory than specified by the rlimit.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References