CVE-2012-2390: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via invalid MAP_HUGETLB mmap operations.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.4.1; version 3.4 only

Published 2012-06-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.