Published: 21/12/2012 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.9

VMScore: 357

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

The online_pages function in mm/memory_hotplug.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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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, numerous bugsand add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated thi ...

A malicious Network File System version 4 (NFSv4) server could return a crafted reply to a GETACL request, causing a denial of service on the client (CVE-2012-2375, Moderate) A divide-by-zero flaw was found in the TCP Illinois congestion control algorithm implementation in the Linux kernel If the TCP Illinois congestion control algorithm were in ...

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

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

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

USN-1704-1 introduced a regression in the Linux kernel ...

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

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/13/11 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875374 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2 https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1580.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1678-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1671-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1679-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1677-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1673-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56527 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 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1580 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1677-1/https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2013-148.html

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