CVE-2012-2127
linux linux kernel: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
fs/proc/root.c in the procfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.2 does not properly interact with CLONE_NEWPID clone system calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reference leak and memory consumption) by making many connections to a daemon that uses PID namespaces to isolate clients, as demonstrated by vsftpd.
- EPSS
- 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=905ad269c55fc62bee3da29f7b1d1efeba8aa1e1
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1607-1
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/20/25