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CVE-2012-2133

CVE information

Published

11 years ago

Last Modified

1 year ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6, when huge pages are enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges by interacting with a hugetlbfs filesystem, as demonstrated by a umount operation that triggers improper handling of quota data..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
4/10
Exploit Score
1.9/10
Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
High
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
6.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Complete
Integrity Impact
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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