| Description: | A flaw was found in the Linux's kernels ext4 file system when mounted witha journal. A local, unprivileged user could exploit this flaw to cause adenial of service. (CVE-2011-4086)A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's cifs file system. Anunprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system leadingto a denial of service. (CVE-2012-1090)H. Peter Anvin reported a flaw in the Linux kernel that could crash thesystem. A local user could exploit this flaw to crash the system.(CVE-2012-1097)A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's cgroups subset. A localattacker could use this flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2012-1146)A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's handling of paged memory. A localunprivileged user, or a privileged user within a KVM guest, could exploitthis flaw to crash the system. (CVE-2012-1179)Tetsuo Handa reported a flaw in the OOM (out of memory) killer of the Linuxkernel. A local unprivileged user can exploit this flaw to cause systemunstability and denial of services. (CVE-2012-4398) |