CVEs-PoC/2012/CVE-2012-5517.md

### [CVE-2012-5517](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5517)
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### Description

The online_pages function in mm/memory_hotplug.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact in opportunistic circumstances by using memory that was hot-added by an administrator.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/

#### Github
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