CVE-2012-0879

published 2012-05-17

CVE-2012-0879: The I/O implementation for block devices in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the CLONE_IO feature, which allows local users to cause a…

medium 5.5 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C N I N A H

The I/O implementation for block devices in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the CLONE_IO feature, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (I/O instability) by starting multiple processes that share an I/O context.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
canonical	ubuntu_linux	—	—
debian	debian_linux	—	—
linux	linux_kernel	< 2.6.33	2.6.33
suse	linux_enterprise_desktop	—	—
suse	linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension	—	—
suse	linux_enterprise_server	—	—

CWE-400