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CVE-2012-2127

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
21/06/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.1.10 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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