Security Advisory

CVE-2012-5517

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-12-21 11:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 21:05:47

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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