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
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