certfr_avis - CERTA-2012-AVI-319

CERTA-2012-AVI-319

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Une vulnérabilité a été corrigée dans le noyau Linux. Celle-ci peut être exploitée par un utilisateur local pour effectuer un déni de service.

Solution

Se référer au bulletin de sécurité de l'éditeur pour l'obtention des correctifs (cf. section Documentation).

Noyau Linux versions 3.0.x antérieures à la version 3.0.34.

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Description

References

Title

Publication Time

CVE-2012-2373 (GCVE-0-2012-2373)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-08-09 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 19:34

Summary

The Linux kernel before 3.4.5 on the x86 platform, when Physical Address Extension (PAE) is enabled, does not properly use the Page Middle Directory (PMD), which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a crafted application that triggers a race condition.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

URL

Tags

	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/Chang…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0743.html	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvald…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/0…	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822821	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/26c19178…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
	http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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