Published: 17/05/2012 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 437

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The I/O implementation for block devices in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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Synopsis Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs,and add various enhancements are now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rate ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2011-4086 Eric Sandeen reported an issue in the journaling layer for ext4 filesystems (jbd2) Local users can cause buffers to ...

The system could be made to crash under certain conditions ...

CWE-400 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/23/5 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796829 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3 http://secunia.com/advisories/48545 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1410-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1408-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/48842 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027086 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1411-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0481 https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2469 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1408-1/

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