Use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6, when huge pages are enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges by interacting with a hugetlbfs filesystem, as demonstrated by a umount operation that triggers improper handling of quota data.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2012-07-03T16:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:26:08.389Z

Reserved: 2012-04-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2012-2133

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-07-03T16:40:32.117

Modified: 2023-02-13T00:24:19.330

Link: CVE-2012-2133

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2012-03-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-2133 - Bugzilla