CVE-2012-2127 (GCVE-0-2012-2127)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-06-21 23:00
Modified
2024-08-06 19:26
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
fs/proc/root.c in the procfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.2 does not properly interact with CLONE_NEWPID clone system calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reference leak and memory consumption) by making many connections to a daemon that uses PID namespaces to isolate clients, as demonstrated by vsftpd.
References
secalert@redhat.com http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=905ad269c55fc62bee3da29f7b1d1efeba8aa1e1
secalert@redhat.com http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1607-1
secalert@redhat.com http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/
secalert@redhat.com http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2 Patch
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/20/25 Exploit
secalert@redhat.com http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/22/1
secalert@redhat.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55774
secalert@redhat.com http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1594-1
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757783 Exploit
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815188 Exploit
secalert@redhat.com https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/905ad269c55fc62bee3da29f7b1d1efeba8aa1e1 Exploit, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=905ad269c55fc62bee3da29f7b1d1efeba8aa1e1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1607-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2 Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/20/25 Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/22/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55774
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1594-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757783 Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815188 Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/905ad269c55fc62bee3da29f7b1d1efeba8aa1e1 Exploit, Patch
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