CVE-2012-2745

Publication date

2012-08-09 10:00:00

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The copy_creds function in kernel/cred.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.2 provides an invalid replacement session keyring to a child process, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a crafted application that uses the fork system call.