Description
The sys_remap_file_pages function in mm/fremap.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.24.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service or gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to the vm_file structure member, and the mmap_region and do_munmap functions.
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.24.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8a459e44ad837018ea5c34a9efe8eb4ad27ded26
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.1
- [oss-security] 20090112 CVE-2009-0024 kernel: local privilege escalation in sys_remap_file_pages mailing-list
- 33211 vdb-entry