fs/proc/root.c in the procfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.2 does not properly interact with CLONE_NEWPID clone system calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reference leak and memory consumption) by making many connections to a daemon that uses PID namespaces to isolate clients, as demonstrated by vsftpd.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2012-06-21T23:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T19:26:07.743Z
Reserved: 2012-04-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2012-2127
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2012-06-21T23:55:02.880
Modified: 2024-11-21T01:38:33.237
Link: CVE-2012-2127
Redhat