CVE-2012-5517

Severity

40%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

115%

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

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.

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html 'CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference'

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-12-21 11:47:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2013-06-21 03:14:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 1

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 2

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 3

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 4

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 5

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 6

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0 release candidate 7

3.0

Linux Kernel 3.0.1

3.0.1

Linux Kernel 3.0.2

3.0.2

Linux Kernel 3.0.3

3.0.3

Linux Kernel 3.0.4

3.0.4

Linux Kernel 3.0.5

3.0.5

Linux Kernel 3.0.6

3.0.6

Linux Kernel 3.0.7

3.0.7

Linux Kernel 3.0.8

3.0.8

Linux Kernel 3.0.9

3.0.9

Linux Kernel 3.0.10

3.0.10

Linux Kernel 3.0.11

3.0.11

Linux Kernel 3.0.12

3.0.12

Linux Kernel 3.0.13

3.0.13

Linux Kernel 3.0.14

3.0.14

Linux Kernel 3.0.15

3.0.15

Linux Kernel 3.0.16

3.0.16

Linux Kernel 3.0.17

3.0.17

Linux Kernel 3.0.18

3.0.18

Linux Kernel 3.0.19

3.0.19

Linux Kernel 3.0.20

3.0.20

Linux Kernel 3.0.21

3.0.21

Linux Kernel 3.0.22

3.0.22

Linux Kernel 3.0.23

3.0.23

Linux Kernel 3.0.24

3.0.24

Linux Kernel 3.0.25

3.0.25

Linux Kernel 3.0.26

3.0.26

Linux Kernel 3.0.27

3.0.27

Linux Kernel 3.0.28

3.0.28

Linux Kernel 3.0.29

3.0.29

Linux Kernel 3.0.30

3.0.30

Linux Kernel 3.0.31

3.0.31

Linux Kernel 3.0.32

3.0.32

Linux Kernel 3.0.33

3.0.33

Linux Kernel 3.0.34

3.0.34

Linux Kernel 3.0.35

3.0.35

Linux Kernel 3.0.36

3.0.36

Linux Kernel 3.0.37

3.0.37

Linux Kernel 3.0.38

3.0.38

Linux Kernel 3.0.39

3.0.39

Linux Kernel 3.0.40

3.0.40

Linux Kernel 3.0.41

3.0.41

Linux Kernel 3.0.42

3.0.42

Linux Kernel 3.0.43

3.0.43

Linux Kernel 3.0.44

3.0.44

Linux Kernel 3.1

3.1

Linux Kernel 3.1 release candidate 1

3.1

Linux Kernel 3.1 release candidate 2

3.1

Linux Kernel 3.1 release candidate 3

3.1

Linux Kernel 3.1 release candidate 4

3.1

Linux Kernel 3.1.1

3.1.1

Linux Kernel 3.1.2

3.1.2

Linux Kernel 3.1.3

3.1.3

Linux Kernel 3.1.4

3.1.4

Linux Kernel 3.1.5

3.1.5

Linux Kernel 3.1.6

3.1.6

Linux Kernel 3.1.7

3.1.7

Linux Kernel 3.1.8

3.1.8

Linux Kernel 3.1.9

3.1.9

Linux Kernel 3.1.10

3.1.10

Linux Kernel 3.2

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 (x86)

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 2

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 3

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 4

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 5

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 6

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2 release candidate 7

3.2

Linux Kernel 3.2.1

3.2.1

Linux Kernel 3.2.1 (x86)

3.2.1

Linux Kernel 3.2.2

3.2.2

Linux Kernel 3.2.3

3.2.3

Linux Kernel 3.2.4

3.2.4

Linux Kernel 3.2.5

3.2.5

Linux Kernel 3.2.6

3.2.6

Linux Kernel 3.2.7

3.2.7

Linux Kernel 3.2.8

3.2.8

Linux Kernel 3.2.9

3.2.9

Linux Kernel 3.2.10

3.2.10

Linux Kernel 3.2.11

3.2.11

Linux Kernel 3.2.12

3.2.12

Linux Kernel 3.2.13

3.2.13

Linux Kernel 3.2.14

3.2.14

Linux Kernel 3.2.15

3.2.15

Linux Kernel 3.2.16

3.2.16

Linux Kernel 3.2.17

3.2.17

Linux Kernel 3.2.18

3.2.18

Linux Kernel 3.2.19

3.2.19

Linux Kernel 3.2.20

3.2.20

Linux Kernel 3.2.21

3.2.21

Linux Kernel 3.2.22

3.2.22

Linux Kernel 3.2.23

3.2.23

Linux Kernel 3.2.24

3.2.24

Linux Kernel 3.2.25

3.2.25

Linux Kernel 3.2.26

3.2.26

Linux Kernel 3.2.27

3.2.27

Linux Kernel 3.2.28

3.2.28

Linux Kernel 3.2.29

3.2.29

Linux Kernel 3.2.30

3.2.30

Linux Kernel 3.3

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 1

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 2

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 3

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 4

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 5

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 6

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3 release candidate 7

3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3.1

3.3.1

Linux Kernel 3.3.2

3.3.2

Linux Kernel 3.3.3

3.3.3

Linux Kernel 3.3.4

3.3.4

Linux Kernel 3.3.5

3.3.5

Linux Kernel 3.3.6

3.3.6

Linux Kernel 3.3.7

3.3.7

Linux Kernel 3.3.8

3.3.8

Linux Kernel 3.4

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 (x86)

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 1

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 1 (x86)

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 2

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 2 (x86)

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 3

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 3 (x86)

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 4

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 4 (x86)

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 5

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 5 (x86)

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 6

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 6 (x86)

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 7

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4 release candidate 7 (x86)

3.4

Linux Kernel 3.4.1

3.4.1

Linux Kernel 3.4.1 (x86)

3.4.1

Linux Kernel 3.4.2

3.4.2

Linux Kernel 3.4.2 (x86)

3.4.2

Linux Kernel 3.4.3

3.4.3

Linux Kernel 3.4.3 (x86)

3.4.3

Linux Kernel 3.4.4

3.4.4

Linux Kernel 3.4.4 (x86)

3.4.4

Linux Kernel 3.4.5

3.4.5

Linux Kernel 3.4.5 (x86)

3.4.5

Linux Kernel 3.4.10

3.4.10

Linux Kernel 3.4.11

3.4.11

Linux Kernel 3.4.12

3.4.12

Linux Kernel 3.4.13

3.4.13

Linux Kernel 3.4.14

3.4.14

Linux Kernel 3.4.15

3.4.15

Linux Kernel 3.4.16

3.4.16

Linux Kernel 3.4.17

3.4.17

Linux Kernel 3.4.18

3.4.18

Linux Kernel 3.4.19

3.4.19

Linux Kernel 3.4.20

3.4.20

Linux Kernel 3.4.21

3.4.21

Linux Kernel 3.4.22

3.4.22

Linux Kernel 3.4.23

3.4.23

Linux Kernel 3.4.24

3.4.24

Linux Kernel 3.5.1

3.5.1

Linux Kernel 3.5.2

3.5.2

Linux Kernel 3.5.3

3.5.3

Linux Kernel 3.5.4

3.5.4

Linux Kernel 3.5.5

3.5.5

Linux Kernel 3.5.6

3.5.6

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1

openSUSE-SU-2013:0925

RHSA-2012:1580

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2

Patch

[oss-security] 20121113 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel: mm/hotplug: failure in propagating hot-added memory to other nodes

56527

USN-1671-1

USN-1673-1

USN-1677-1

USN-1678-1

USN-1679-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875374

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1

SUSE-SU-2012:1679

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