CVE-2012-0879

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CVSS v3
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS v2
4.9
MEDIUM
Affected
1
PROJECT

Description

The I/O implementation for block devices in the Linux kernel before 2.6.33 does not properly handle the CLONE_IO feature, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (I/O instability) by starting multiple processes that share an I/O context.

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