CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1146
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-476
Description
The mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event function in mm/memcontrol.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.10 does not properly handle multiple events that are attached to the same eventfd, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by registering memory threshold events.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.10)
• fedoraproject fedora 16
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise high availability extension 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=371528caec553785c37f73fa3926ea0de84f986f git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075781.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/07/3 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800813 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73711 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/371528caec553785c37f73fa3926ea0de84f986f Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=371528caec553785c37f73fa3926ea0de84f986f git.kernel.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-March/075781.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/07/3 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800813 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73711 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/371528caec553785c37f73fa3926ea0de84f986f Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory