CVE-2012-3511: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.2. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple race conditions in the madvise_remove function in mm/madvise.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5 allow local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) via vectors involving a (1) munmap or (2) close system call.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 3.4.4; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only; version 3.0.4 only; …

Published 2012-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.