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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cve-icon 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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-06-21T23:55:02.880

Modified: 2023-02-13T04:33:22.140

Link: CVE-2012-2127

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-04-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-2127 - Bugzilla