CVE-2012-3511

Description

Multiple race conditions in the madvise_remove function in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) via vectors involving a (1) munmap or (2) close system call.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849734

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1577-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1572-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1567-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55151

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/13

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.5

http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1

http://secunia.com/advisories/55055

http://secunia.com/advisories/50732

http://secunia.com/advisories/50633

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9ab4233dd08036fe34a89c7dc6f47a8bf2eb29eb

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3