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CVE-2011-2518 Detail

Description

The tomoyo_mount_acl function in security/tomoyo/mount.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.2 calls the kern_path function with arguments taken directly from a mount system call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a NULL value for the device name.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4e78c724d47e2342aa8fde61f6b8536f662f795f CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/07/01/5 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4e78c724d47e2342aa8fde61f6b8536f662f795f CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2011-2518
NVD Published Date:
05/24/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.