The linux-2.4.21-mlock.patch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly maintain the mlock page count when one process unlocks pages that belong to another process, which allows local users to mlock more memory than specified by the rlimit.
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EUVD |
EUVD-2004-0490 | The linux-2.4.21-mlock.patch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly maintain the mlock page count when one process unlocks pages that belong to another process, which allows local users to mlock more memory than specified by the rlimit. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-08T00:17:15.250Z
Reserved: 2004-05-27T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2004-0491
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2004-12-31T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2004-0491
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