{"cve":"CVE-2012-4508","nvd":{"published":"2012-12-21T11:47:36.580","modified":"2026-06-16T23:45:13.860","status":"Modified","description":"Race condition in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.16 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from a deleted file by reading an extent that was not properly marked as uninitialized.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-362"],"references":["http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dee1f973ca341c266229faa5a1a5bb268bed3531","http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091110.html","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1519.html"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:27:27.940201468+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2012-4508","score":0.00285,"percentile":0.21019,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}