Bug 815188 (CVE-2012-2127) - CVE-2012-2127 kernel: pid namespace leak in kernel 3.0 and 3.1
Summary: CVE-2012-2127 kernel: pid namespace leak in kernel 3.0 and 3.1
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-2127
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: Engineering815191 815192
Blocks: Embargoed815184
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Reported: 2012-04-23 04:37 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2023-05-11 18:59 UTC (History)
24 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-08-24 12:59:42 UTC

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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2012-04-23 04:37:34 UTC 
Vadim Ponomarev (ccrssaa at karelia.ru),  report a pid
namespace leak caused by vsftpd.

Detailed discussion can be found in:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757783

Introduced by:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/423e0ab086ad8b33626e45fa94ac7613146b7ffa

Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/905ad269c55fc62bee3da29f7b1d1efeba8aa1e1

Steps to reproduce:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757783#c0

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Vadim Ponomarev for reporting this issue.
Comment 3 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2012-04-23 05:09:46 UTC 
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 815192]
Comment 4 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2012-04-23 05:25:09 UTC 
Statement:

This issue did not affect the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6 as they did not backport the upstream commit 423e0ab0 that introduced this issue. This issue did not affect Red Hat Enteprise Linux MRG 2.
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