What is CVE-2011-1474?

CVE-2011-1474 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Kernel, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-12-26.

How severe is CVE-2011-1474?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2011-1474 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Linux Kernel

CVE-2011-1474

A locally locally exploitable DOS vulnerability was found in pax-linux versions 2.6.32.33-test79.patch, 2.6.38-test3.patch, and 2.6.37.4-test14.patch. A bad bounds check in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown triggered by programs doing an mmap after a MAP_GROWSDOWN mmap will create an infinite loop condition without releasing the VM semaphore eventually leading to a system crash.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.004 (27.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Linux Linux_kernel — versions 2.6.32.33, 2.6.37.4, 2.6.38
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

unifuzz/getcvss

References

cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve@mitre.org (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2011-1474?: CVE-2011-1474 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux Kernel, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-12-26.
How severe is CVE-2011-1474?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2011-1474 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.