CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-0879
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
The I/O implementation for block devices in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the CLONE_IO feature, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (I/O instability) by starting multiple processes that share an I/O context.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.33)
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• debian debian linux 6.0
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise high availability extension 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9 git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48545 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48842 Not Applicable
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/23/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027086 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1408-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1410-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1411-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796829 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33 Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9 git.kernel.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48545 Not Applicable
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48842 Not Applicable
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/23/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027086 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1408-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1410-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1411-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796829 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3 Patch, Third Party Advisory