CVE-2012-2133
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jul 3, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 4, 2012
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6, when huge pages are enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges by interacting with a hugetlbfs filesystem, as demonstrated by a umount operation that triggers improper handling of quota data.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=90481622d75715bfcb68501280a917dbfe516029
- DSA-2469vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817430
- SUSE-SU-2012:0616vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20120424 Re: CVE Request: use after free bug in "quota" handling in hugetlb codemailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.6
- 53233vdb-entry
- linux-kernel-hugepages-dos(75168)vdb-entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/90481622d75715bfcb68501280a917dbfe516029
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