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CVE-2012-2133

Published: Jul 3, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=90481622d75715bfcb68501280a917dbfe516029

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vendor-advisory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=817430

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SUSE-SU-2012:0616

vendor-advisory

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[oss-security] 20120424 Re: CVE Request: use after free bug in "quota" handling in hugetlb code

mailing-list

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.6

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vdb-entry

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linux-kernel-hugepages-dos(75168)

vdb-entry

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/90481622d75715bfcb68501280a917dbfe516029

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