{"cve":"CVE-2012-5375","nvd":{"published":"2013-02-18T11:56:38.760","modified":"2026-06-16T23:46:45.473","status":"Modified","description":"The CRC32C feature in the Btrfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8-rc1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (prevention of file creation) by leveraging the ability to write to a directory important to the victim, and creating a file with a crafted name that is associated with a specific CRC32C hash value.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-310"],"references":["http://crypto.junod.info/2012/12/13/hash-dos-and-btrfs/","http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9c52057c698fb96f8f07e7a4bcf4801a092bda89","http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/12/13/20","http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/testing/patch-3.8-rc1.bz2","http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1944-1"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:27:27.940201468+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2012-5375","score":0.00858,"percentile":0.5847,"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."]}