CVE-2012-5517
Summary
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.
- HIGH
- LOCAL
- NONE
- NONE
- NONE
- COMPLETE
References
Advisory Timeline
- Published