CVE-2012-5517

The online_pages function in mm/memory_hotplug.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact in opportunistic circumstances by using memory that was hot-added by an administrator.

Date published : 2012-12-21

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56527

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=08dff7b7d629807dbb1f398c68dd9cd58dd657a1