CVE-2012-6647

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way the futex_wait_requeue_pi() function of the Linux kernel's futex subsystem handled the requeuing of certain Priority Inheritance (PI) futexes. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to crash the system.

This issue does not affect the versions of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 7, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

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