{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2012-2127", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "fs/proc/root.c in the procfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.2 does not properly interact with CLONE_NEWPID clone system calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (reference leak and memory consumption) by making many connections to a daemon that uses PID namespaces to isolate clients, as demonstrated by vsftpd." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/905ad269c55fc62bee3da29f7b1d1efeba8aa1e1", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/905ad269c55fc62bee3da29f7b1d1efeba8aa1e1" }, { "name": "USN-1594-1", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1594-1" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20120422 Re: Re: CVE request: pid namespace leak in kernel 3.0 and 3.1", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/22/1" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815188", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815188" }, { "name": "USN-1607-1", "refsource": "UBUNTU", "url": "http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1607-1" }, { "name": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/" }, { "name": "55774", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55774" }, { "name": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=905ad269c55fc62bee3da29f7b1d1efeba8aa1e1", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=905ad269c55fc62bee3da29f7b1d1efeba8aa1e1" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757783", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757783" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20120420 Re: CVE request: pid namespace leak in kernel 3.0 and 3.1", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/20/25" }, { "name": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/patch-3.2.bz2" } ] } }