CVE-2012-5517

Publication date

2012-12-21 11:00:00

Family

redhat

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.