{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2008-06-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: Reinstate ZERO_PAGE optimization in 'get_user_pages()' and fix XIP",
    "id" : "452666",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452666"
  },
  "details" : [ "The Linux kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.25 before 2.6.25.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of calls to the get_user_pages function, which lacks a ZERO_PAGE optimization and results in allocation of \"useless newly zeroed pages.\"" ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2008-08-26T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0585",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-74.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-11-04T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0957",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-92.1.18.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-2372\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2372" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-2372",
  "csaw" : false
}