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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2010-0291
Created:February 5, 2010 Updated:July 12, 2010
Description: From the Ubuntu advisory:

Al Viro discovered that certain mremap operations could leak kernel memory. A local attacker could exploit this to consume all available memory, leading to a denial of service.

Alerts:
CentOS CESA-2010:0504 2010-07-02
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0161-01 2010-03-23
Red Hat RHSA-2010:0504-01 2010-07-01
Debian DSA-2004-1 2010-02-27
Debian DSA-1996-1 2010-02-12
Ubuntu USN-894-1 2010-02-05
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