{"id":"CVE-2005-4811","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2005-4811","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T18:39:24.228Z","title":"The hugepage code (hugetlb.c) in Linux kernel 2.6, possibly 2.6.12 and 2.6.13, in certain configurations, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering an mmap error before a prefault, which causes an error in the…","description":"The hugepage code (hugetlb.c) in Linux kernel 2.6, possibly 2.6.12 and 2.6.13, in certain configurations, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by triggering an mmap error before a prefault, which causes an error in the unmap_hugepage_area function.","published":"2005-12-31T05:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:19:30.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.0039,"percentile":0.32895,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.39%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112323336017157","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22292","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22945","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/25714","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20362","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165345","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10976","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=112323336017157","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22292","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/22945","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/25714","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-249.htm","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1304","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0689.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20362","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165345","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10976","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4811","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}