CVE-2012-5517
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.
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- 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=08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-06/msg00005.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1580.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2