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CVE-2012-5517

Public on 2012-12-21
Modified on 2014-09-14
Description

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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2013-01-14 01:14 ALAS-2013-148
Amazon Linux 1 nvidia 2013-01-14 01:14 ALAS-2013-148

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.0 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 4.0 AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C