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CVE-2005-4811

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2005-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The hugepage code (hugetlb.c) in Linux kernel 2.6, possibly 2.6.12 and 2.6.13, in certain configurations, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering an mmap error before a prefault, which causes an error in the unmap_hugepage_area function.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References