CVE-2011-4097

NameCVE-2011-4097
DescriptionInteger overflow in the oom_badness function in mm/oom_kill.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.8 on 64-bit platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or process termination) by using a certain large amount of memory.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
linux-2.6sourcelenny(not affected)
linux-2.6sourcesqueeze(not affected)
linux-2.6source(unstable)3.0.0-6

Notes

[squeeze] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Introduced in 2.6.39)
[lenny] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Introduced in 2.6.39)

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