Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2004-0491
Severity
LOW
CVSS
2.1
EPSS
0.36%
Linux
Original Filing — NVD Description
The linux-2.4.21-mlock.patch in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly maintain the mlock page count when one process unlocks pages that belong to another process, which allows local users to mlock more memory than specified by the rlimit.