CVE-2012-6647
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 26, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- May 14, 2014
Description
The futex_wait_requeue_pi function in kernel/futex.c in the Linux kernel before 3.5.1 does not ensure that calls have two different futex addresses, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI command.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6f7b0a2a5c0fb03be7c25bd1745baa50582348ef
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6f7b0a2a5c0fb03be7c25bd1745baa50582348ef
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097746
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.5.1
- [oss-security] 20140514 Re: CVE request Linux kernel: forbid uaddr == uaddr2 in futex_wait_requeue_pi() to avoid null dereferencemailing-list
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