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CVE-2012-0028

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The robust futex implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28 does not properly handle processes that make exec system calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges by writing to a memory location in a child process.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 2.6.27.62; 2.6.27, 2.6.27.1, 2.6.27.2, 2.6.27.3, 2.6.27.4, 2.6.27.5 (+56)

References

• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8141c7f3e7aee618312fa1c15109e1219de784a7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/08/1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771764
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8141c7f3e7aee618312fa1c15109e1219de784a7
• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=8141c7f3e7aee618312fa1c15109e1219de784a7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/05/08/1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771764
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/8141c7f3e7aee618312fa1c15109e1219de784a7

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