CVE-2005-4811

MediumCVSS 4.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.9/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected software

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References

Timeline

Published: Dec 31, 2005
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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