Security Advisory

CVE-2012-2133

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-07-03 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 19:26:08
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.