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CVE-2008-2372

Date: July 2, 2008

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."

Severity Score

6.2

Related Resources (24)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32485

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2372

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-2372

Url: http://new-ubuntu-news.blogspot.com/2008/06/re-pending-stable-kernel-security_25.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32393

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43550

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9383

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30982

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31202

Url: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0804.3/3203.html

Url: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2629

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0207

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00009.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31628

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2372

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30901

Url: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.9

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=89f5b7da2a6bad2e84670422ab8192382a5aeb9f

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-2372

Severity Score

6.2

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.2
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2008-2372

Date: July 2, 2008

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