The vulnerability of the Linux operating system, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the system call epollctl fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux operating system arises from the improper handling of the ELOOP error in operations like EPOLLCTLADD. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause a service to terminate abnormally through a specially...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3375

The epollctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLLCTLADD 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...

kernel: epoll: can leak file descriptors when returning -ELOOP

The epollctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLLCTLADD 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...

kernel: epoll: can leak file descriptors when returning -ELOOP

The epollctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLLCTLADD 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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-3375

The epollctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 3.2.24 does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLLCTLADD 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...

PT-2012-1190 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.2.24 Description: The epoll ctl system call in fs/eventpoll.c does not properly handle ELOOP errors in EPOLL CTL ADD operations, allowing local users to cause a denial of service file-descriptor consumption an...