Tracker / CVE-2012-5517
CVE-2012-5517
Medium 4.0
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.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.5.7 |
Analysis
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