CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-2133

Published: Jul 03, 2012 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 3.3.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.3 (including) 3.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.3.1 (including) 3.3.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.3.2 (including) 3.3.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.3.3 (including) 3.3.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.3.4 (including) 3.3.4 (including)

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