CVE-2012-5517
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 21, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 24, 2012
Description
The online_pages function in mm/memory_hotplug.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact in opportunistic circumstances by using memory that was hot-added by an administrator.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2
- USN-1679-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2012:1580vendor-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/
- SUSE-SU-2012:1679vendor-advisory
- USN-1673-1vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1
- [oss-security] 20121113 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel: mm/hotplug: failure in propagating hot-added memory to other nodesmailing-list
- USN-1678-1vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1
- 56527vdb-entry
- USN-1671-1vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0925vendor-advisory
- USN-1677-1vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875374
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