kernel: denial of service [LWN.net]

Package(s):

kernel

CVE #(s):

CVE-2012-3375

Created:

July 10, 2012

Updated:

July 13, 2012

Description:

From the Red Hat advisory:

* The fix for CVE-2011-1083 (RHSA-2012:0150) introduced a flaw in the way the Linux kernel's Event Poll (epoll) subsystem handled resource clean up when an ELOOP error code was returned. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-3375, Moderate)

Alerts:

Red Hat	RHSA-2012:1061-01	2012-07-10
CentOS	CESA-2012:1061	2012-07-10
Oracle	ELSA-2012-1061	2012-07-11
Scientific Linux	SL-kern-20120712	2012-07-12
Red Hat	RHSA-2012:1150-01	2012-08-08
Ubuntu	USN-1514-1	2012-08-10
Ubuntu	USN-1529-1	2012-08-10
Ubuntu	USN-1532-1	2012-08-10
Ubuntu	USN-1533-1	2012-08-10
Ubuntu	USN-1539-1	2012-08-14
Mageia	MGASA-2012-0237	2012-08-23
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2013:0396-1	2013-03-05

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