CVE-2012-4508 | BDVDB-2026-53882 Detail
Description#
Race condition in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.16 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from a deleted file by reading an extent that was not properly marked as uninitialized.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dee1f973ca341c266229faa5a1a5bb268bed3531
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1783.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.16
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1645-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1899-1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1519.html
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dee1f973ca341c266229faa5a1a5bb268bed3531
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091110.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869904
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/25/1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1900-1
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.