CVE-2012-2127

medium

Published 2012-06-21 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status
linux-kernel		affected
linux-kernel	3.1.1	affected
linux-kernel	3.1.2	affected
linux-kernel	3.1.3	affected
linux-kernel	3.1.4	affected
linux-kernel	3.1.5	affected
linux-kernel	3.1.6	affected
linux-kernel	3.1.7	affected
linux-kernel	3.1.8	affected
linux-kernel	3.1.9	affected

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.