CVE-2012-0879

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.

Date published : 2012-05-17

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.33

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=61cc74fbb87af6aa551a06a370590c9bc07e29d9