Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6, when huge pages are enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges by interacting with a hugetlbfs filesystem, as demonstrated by a umount operation that triggers improper handling of quota data.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2012-11-20 06:34 | ALAS-2012-142 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 6.2 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 4.0 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |