CVE-2012-5517

Description

From CVE.org

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.

Statement

This issue did affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

This issue did not affect the versions of kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score44N/A
Attack VectorLocalLocalN/A
Access ComplexityHighHighN/A
AuthenticationNoneNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneNoneN/A
Availability ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

NVD: AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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