CVE-2012-1146
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 17, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 14, 2012
Description
The mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event function in mm/memcontrol.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.10 does not properly handle multiple events that are attached to the same eventfd, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by registering memory threshold events.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- SUSE-SU-2012:0554vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/371528caec553785c37f73fa3926ea0de84f986f
- 48898third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20120307 Re: CVE request -- kernel: mm: memcg: unregistring of events attached to the same eventfd can lead to oopsmailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10
- 48964third-party-advisory
- kernel-memcg-dos(73711)vdb-entry
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=371528caec553785c37f73fa3926ea0de84f986f
- FEDORA-2012-3712vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800813
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