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CVE-2012-5517
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…
Medium4.0EPSS 0.39%
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.0 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (15)
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.6.bz2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-1679-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1580 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1679 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-1673-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121113 Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel: mm/hotplug: failure in propagating hot-added memory to other nodes (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-1678-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 56527 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-1671-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0925 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-1677-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=875374 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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