CVE-2012-3400
HIGH · CVSS 7.6EPSS 7.8%EU EUVD
Heap-based buffer overflow in the udf_load_logicalvol function in fs/udf/super.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted UDF filesystem.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-787
- EPSS score
- 7.8% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-3371)
- Published
- October 3, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-3371 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- linux / linux kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1df2ae31c724e57be9d7ac00d78db8a5dabdd050
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=adee11b2085bee90bd8f4f52123ffb07882d6256
- http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10691(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0594.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50506(Broken Link)
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1529-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.4.5(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/07/10/2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1555-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1556-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1557-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=843139(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1df2ae31c724e57be9d7ac00d78db8a5dabdd050(Third Party Advisory)
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/adee11b2085bee90bd8f4f52123ffb07882d6256(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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