CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-2133

4.0 MEDIUM Published 2012-07-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-07-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6, when huge pages are enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges by interacting with a hugetlbfs filesystem, as demonstrated by a umount operation that triggers improper handling of quota data.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.3.5) • linux linux kernel 3.3 • linux linux kernel 3.3.1 • linux linux kernel 3.3.2 • linux linux kernel 3.3.3 • linux linux kernel 3.3.4

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References