CVE-2012-4508
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4508
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2012-4508.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2012-4508
- Downstream
- Related
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:11:20.602416Z
- Published
- 2012-12-21T11:47:36Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:11:20.602416Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1540.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0496.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1519.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1783.html
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1645-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1899-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1900-1
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dee1f973ca341c266229faa5a1a5bb268bed3531
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869904
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=dee1f973ca341c266229faa5a1a5bb268bed3531
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091110.html
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.16
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/25/1
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2012/suse-su-20121679-1.html