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Tracker / CVE-2012-0879

CVE-2012-0879

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.33
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension
suse linux_enterprise_server

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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