Race Condition Affecting kernel-uek-debug package, versions <0:2.6.32-400.26.2.el5uek
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EPSS
0.04% (11th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE5-KERNELUEKDEBUG-2478458
- published 10 Apr 2022
- disclosed 21 Dec 2012
Introduced: 21 Dec 2012
CVE-2012-4508 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Oracle:5
kernel-uek-debug
to version 0:2.6.32-400.26.2.el5uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2013-2520
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-debug
package and not the kernel-uek-debug
package as distributed by Oracle
.
See How to fix?
for Oracle:5
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://linux.oracle.com/cve/CVE-2012-4508.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-1540.html
- https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2012-1540-1.html
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dee1f973ca341c266229faa5a1a5bb268bed3531
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dee1f973ca341c266229faa5a1a5bb268bed3531
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/25/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869904
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.16
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1645-1
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1899-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1900-1
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091110.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1783.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1519.html
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dee1f973ca341c266229faa5a1a5bb268bed3531
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