kernel: mm/hotplug: failure in propagating hot-added memory to other nodes

The onlinepages function in mm/memoryhotplug.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact in opportunistic circumstances by using memory that was hot-added by an administrator...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-5517

The onlinepages function in mm/memoryhotplug.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash or possibly have unspecified other impact in opportunistic circumstances by using memory that was hot-added by an administrator...