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CVE-2012-5517

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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.

References

https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html

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

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

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1679-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1678-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1677-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1673-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1671-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56527

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/13/11

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

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1580.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-12-21

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00043

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