oss-security - CVE request: kernel: oom: use pte pages in OOM score

Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:02:58 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: oom: use pte pages in OOM score

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

Thanks, Eugene

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