{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2012-03-23T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: request_module() OOM local DoS",
    "id" : "853474",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853474"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.7",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The __request_module function in kernel/kmod.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4 does not set a certain killable attribute, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted application." ],
  "statement" : "This issue does affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red\nHat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enteprise MRG. Future kernel updates may address this flaw.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Tetsuo Handa for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2013-09-30T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:1348",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-371.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2013-02-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2013:0223",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-279.22.1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2012-09-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:1282",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.2.23-rt37.56.el6rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2012-09-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:1282",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "rt-firmware-0:1.0-3.el6_3"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4398\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4398" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-4398",
  "csaw" : false
}