cve/2012/CVE-2012-2390.md

### [CVE-2012-2390](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2390)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1535-1

#### Github
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