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HistoryOct 03, 2012 - 10:00 a.m.

CVE-2012-3375

2012-10-0310:00:00
redhat
www.cve.org

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

20.7%

The epoll_ctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLL_CTL_ADD operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (file-descriptor consumption and system crash) via a crafted application that attempts to create a circular epoll dependency. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2011-1083.