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kernel: denial of service

Package(s):

kernel

CVE #(s):

CVE-2012-1090

Created:

March 7, 2012

Updated:

June 1, 2012

Description:

The CIFS filesystem can be made to leak open files; the resulting dentry reference count mismatch causes an oops when the filesystem is unmounted.

Alerts:

Fedora	FEDORA-2012-2753	2012-03-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2012-3030	2012-03-06
Ubuntu	USN-1405-1	2012-03-27
Debian	DSA-2443-1	2012-03-26
Red Hat	RHSA-2012:0481-01	2012-04-17
CentOS	CESA-2012:0481	2012-04-18
Scientific Linux	SL-kern-20120418	2012-04-18
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:0540-1	2012-04-20
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:0554-1	2012-04-23
Oracle	ELSA-2012-0481	2012-04-23
Oracle	ELSA-2012-2007	2012-04-23
Oracle	ELSA-2012-2007	2012-04-23
Oracle	ELSA-2012-2008	2012-04-23
Oracle	ELSA-2012-2008	2012-04-23
Ubuntu	USN-1425-1	2012-04-24
Ubuntu	USN-1426-1	2012-04-24
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:0554-2	2012-04-26
Ubuntu	USN-1431-1	2012-04-30
Ubuntu	USN-1433-1	2012-04-30
Ubuntu	USN-1432-1	2012-05-07
Ubuntu	USN-1440-1	2012-05-08
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:0616-1	2012-05-14
Ubuntu	USN-1458-1	2012-05-31
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:0799-1	2012-06-28
Oracle	ELSA-2012-2022	2012-07-02
Oracle	ELSA-2012-2022	2012-07-02
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2012:1439-1	2012-11-05

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