CVE-2012-3375
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Oct 3, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 14, 2012
Description
The epoll_ctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLL_CTL_ADD operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (file-descriptor consumption and system crash) via a crafted application that attempts to create a circular epoll dependency. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1083.
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Weaknesses
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Affected Products
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References
- https://downloads.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100165733
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.24
- 1027237vdb-entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/13d518074a952d33d47c428419693f63389547e9
- 51164third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20120704 Re: CVE Request -- kernel: epoll: can leak file descriptors when returning -ELOOPmailing-list
- USN-1529-1vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=13d518074a952d33d47c428419693f63389547e9
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837502
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