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CVE-2012-5517

Published: Dec 21, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The online_pages function in mm/memory_hotplug.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact in opportunistic circumstances by using memory that was hot-added by an administrator.

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

References

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/

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SUSE-SU-2012:1679

vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1

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[oss-security] 20121113 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel: mm/hotplug: failure in propagating hot-added memory to other nodes

mailing-list

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vendor-advisory

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1

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vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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openSUSE-SU-2013:0925

vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875374

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