cve-2012-0879
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-05-17 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 18:38
Severity ?
Summary
The I/O implementation for block devices in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the CLONE_IO feature, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (I/O instability) by starting multiple processes that share an I/O context.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.htmlThird Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48545Not Applicable
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48842Not Applicable
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/23/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027086Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1408-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1410-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1411-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796829Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
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