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CVE-2012-2745

Published: Aug 9, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The copy_creds function in kernel/cred.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.2 provides an invalid replacement session keyring to a child process, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a crafted application that uses the fork system call.

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

References

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.2

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vendor-advisory

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/79549c6dfda0603dba9a70a53467ce62d9335c33

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833428

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third-party-advisory

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=79549c6dfda0603dba9a70a53467ce62d9335c33

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vdb-entry

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vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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