CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-3511

6.2 MEDIUM Published 2012-10-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-10-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.2 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Multiple race conditions in the madvise_remove function in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) via vectors involving a (1) munmap or (2) close system call.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.4.4) • linux linux kernel 3.0 • linux linux kernel 3.0.1 • linux linux kernel 3.0.2 • linux linux kernel 3.0.3 • linux linux kernel 3.0.4 • linux linux kernel 3.0.5 • linux linux kernel 3.0.6 • linux linux kernel 3.0.7 • linux linux kernel 3.0.8 • linux linux kernel 3.0.9 • linux linux kernel 3.0.10 • linux linux kernel 3.0.11 • linux linux kernel 3.0.12 • linux linux kernel 3.0.13 • linux linux kernel 3.0.14 • linux linux kernel 3.0.15 • linux linux kernel 3.0.16 • linux linux kernel 3.0.17 • linux linux kernel 3.0.18 • linux linux kernel 3.0.19 • linux linux kernel 3.0.20 • linux linux kernel 3.0.21 • linux linux kernel 3.0.22 • linux linux kernel 3.0.23 • linux linux kernel 3.0.24 • linux linux kernel 3.0.25 • linux linux kernel 3.0.26 • linux linux kernel 3.0.27 • linux linux kernel 3.0.28 • linux linux kernel 3.0.29 • linux linux kernel 3.0.30 • linux linux kernel 3.0.31 • linux linux kernel 3.0.32 • linux linux kernel 3.0.33 • linux linux kernel 3.0.34 • linux linux kernel 3.1 • linux linux kernel 3.1.1 • linux linux kernel 3.1.2 • linux linux kernel 3.1.3 • linux linux kernel 3.1.4 • linux linux kernel 3.1.5 • linux linux kernel 3.1.6 • linux linux kernel 3.1.7 • linux linux kernel 3.1.8 • linux linux kernel 3.1.9 • linux linux kernel 3.1.10 • linux linux kernel 3.2 • linux linux kernel 3.2.1 • linux linux kernel 3.2.2 • linux linux kernel 3.2.3 • linux linux kernel 3.2.4 • linux linux kernel 3.2.5 • linux linux kernel 3.2.6 • linux linux kernel 3.2.7 • linux linux kernel 3.2.8 • linux linux kernel 3.2.9 • linux linux kernel 3.2.10 • linux linux kernel 3.2.11 • linux linux kernel 3.2.12 … and 21 more

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References