CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-3375

Published: Oct 03, 2012 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The epoll_ctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLL_CTL_ADD operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (file-descriptor consumption and system crash) via a crafted application that attempts to create a circular epoll dependency. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1083.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux * 3.2.23 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.1 (including) 3.0.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.2 (including) 3.0.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.3 (including) 3.0.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.4 (including) 3.0.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.5 (including) 3.0.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.6 (including) 3.0.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.7 (including) 3.0.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.8 (including) 3.0.8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.9 (including) 3.0.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.10 (including) 3.0.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.11 (including) 3.0.11 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.12 (including) 3.0.12 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.13 (including) 3.0.13 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.14 (including) 3.0.14 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.15 (including) 3.0.15 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.16 (including) 3.0.16 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.17 (including) 3.0.17 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.18 (including) 3.0.18 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.19 (including) 3.0.19 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.20 (including) 3.0.20 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.21 (including) 3.0.21 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.22 (including) 3.0.22 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.23 (including) 3.0.23 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.24 (including) 3.0.24 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.25 (including) 3.0.25 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.26 (including) 3.0.26 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.27 (including) 3.0.27 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.28 (including) 3.0.28 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.29 (including) 3.0.29 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.30 (including) 3.0.30 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.31 (including) 3.0.31 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.32 (including) 3.0.32 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.33 (including) 3.0.33 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.0.34 (including) 3.0.34 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.1.1 (including) 3.1.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.1.2 (including) 3.1.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.1.3 (including) 3.1.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.1.4 (including) 3.1.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.1.5 (including) 3.1.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.1.6 (including) 3.1.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.1.7 (including) 3.1.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.1.8 (including) 3.1.8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.1.9 (including) 3.1.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.1.10 (including) 3.1.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.1 (including) 3.2.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.2 (including) 3.2.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.3 (including) 3.2.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.4 (including) 3.2.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.5 (including) 3.2.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.6 (including) 3.2.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.7 (including) 3.2.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.8 (including) 3.2.8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.9 (including) 3.2.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.10 (including) 3.2.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.11 (including) 3.2.11 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.12 (including) 3.2.12 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.13 (including) 3.2.13 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.14 (including) 3.2.14 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.15 (including) 3.2.15 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.16 (including) 3.2.16 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.17 (including) 3.2.17 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.18 (including) 3.2.18 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.19 (including) 3.2.19 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.20 (including) 3.2.20 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.21 (including) 3.2.21 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.2.22 (including) 3.2.22 (including)

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