A locally locally exploitable DOS vulnerability was found in pax-linux versions 2.6.32.33-test79.patch, 2.6.38-test3.patch, and 2.6.37.4-test14.patch. A bad bounds check in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown triggered by programs doing an mmap after a MAP_GROWSDOWN mmap will create an infinite loop condition without releasing the VM semaphore eventually leading to a system crash.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-12-26T18:44:27

Updated: 2024-08-06T22:28:41.488Z

Reserved: 2011-03-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2011-1474

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-12-26T19:15:10.657

Modified: 2024-11-21T01:26:23.980

Link: CVE-2011-1474

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