CVE-2012-2745 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2012-2745?

CVE-2012-2745 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 9 Aug 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The copy_creds function in kernel/cred.c in the Linux kernel before 3.3.2 provides an invalid replacement session keyring to a child process, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a crafted application that uses the fork system call.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-2745?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2012-2745?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-2745 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-2745 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2012-2745, GHSA-gxmr-6cg7-7q62.