Security Advisory

CVE-2012-4398

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2013-02-18 02:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 20:35:09

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The __request_module function in kernel/kmod.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4 does not set a certain killable attribute, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted application.

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