CVE-2011-4097: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer 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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 3.1.8 (fixed in 3.1.8)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 6.0 only

Published 2012-05-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.