COMMAND

    mmap

SYSTEMS AFFECTED

    Linux 2.x

PROBLEM

    Michal Zalewski found  following.  Linux  2.0.36 has the  similiar
    problem with copy-on-write  pages allocated with  mmap - as  these
    pages  are  not  accounted  within  per-user limits.  Fortunately,
    it's less harmfull than ICP described at:

        http://oliver.efri.hr/~crv/security/bugs/Linux/ipc.html

    because memory will be freed as soon as process owning it will be
    killed.

SOLUTION

    Future releases of kernel should fix that.