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CVE-2012-0879

CVE-2012-0879

EPSS 0.5%
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 products
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References
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.htmlhttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796829http://secunia.com/advisories/48545http://secunia.com/advisories/48842https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b69f2292063d2caf37ca9aec7d63ded203701bf3