National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2745

Overview

The copy_creds function in kernel/cred.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.2 provides an invalid replacement session keyring to a child process, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a crafted application that uses the fork system call.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/79549c6dfda0603dba9a70a53467ce62d9335c33

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/79549c6dfda0603dba9a70a53467ce62d9335c33

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833428

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=833428

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1606-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1606-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1597-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1597-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1567-1

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

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1027236

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027236

External Source: BID

Name: 54365

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54365

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.2

Hyperlink:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.3.2

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 50961

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/50961

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 50853

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/50853

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 50633

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/50633

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2012:1064

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1064.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=79549c6dfda0603dba9a70a53467ce62d9335c33

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=79549c6dfda0603dba9a70a53467ce62d9335c33