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CVE-2012-0879 Detail

Description

The I/O implementation for block devices in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the CLONE_IO feature, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (I/O instability) by starting multiple processes that share an I/O context.


Metrics

 
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/48545 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://secunia.com/advisories/48842 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Not Applicable 
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2469 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/23/5 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027086 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1408-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1410-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1411-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796829 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-0879
NVD Published Date:
05/17/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.