CVE-2011-2518 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2011-2518?

CVE-2011-2518 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 May 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The tomoyo_mount_acl function in security/tomoyo/mount.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.2 calls the kern_path function with arguments taken directly from a mount system call, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a NULL value for the device name.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2011-2518?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2011-2518?

No fix has been published for CVE-2011-2518 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2011-2518 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2011-2518 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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