Linux Kernel 3.4/3.4.1 resource management

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel 3.4/3.4.1 (Operating System) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-399. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Memory leak in mm/hugetlb.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or system crash) via invalid MAP_HUGETLB mmap operations.

The weakness was disclosed 06/13/2012 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2012-2390. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 76645 (RHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2012:1150)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165525 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for Linux Kernel (SUSE-SU-2012:0904-1)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (76281) and Tenable (76645). The entries 5383, 5478, 60961 and 60960 are pretty similar.

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Class: Resource management
CWE: CWE-399 / CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 76645
Nessus Name: RHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2012:1150)
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OpenVAS ID: 881508
OpenVAS Name: CentOS Update for kernel CESA-2012:1304 centos6
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Patch: c50ac050811d6485616a193eb0f37bfbd191cc89
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04/19/2012 🔍
05/23/2012 +34 days 🔍
06/13/2012 +21 days 🔍
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06/13/2012 +0 days 🔍
09/30/2012 +109 days 🔍
07/22/2014 +660 days 🔍
03/23/2015 +244 days 🔍
12/03/2021 +2447 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: kernel.org

Advisory: RHSA-2012:1150
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2012-2390 (🔍)
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X-Force: 76281
Vulnerability Center: 36289 - Linux Kernel < 3.4.2 Memory Leak Allows Local DoS via Invalid MAP_HUGETLB mmap operations, Medium
SecurityFocus: 53668 - Linux Kernel 'mmap()' Failure Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Created: 03/23/2015 16:50
Updated: 12/03/2021 21:46
Changes: 03/23/2015 16:50 (64), 04/15/2019 12:49 (12), 12/03/2021 21:32 (4), 12/03/2021 21:46 (2)
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