PT-2012-4774

CVE-2012-3510

Published

2012-10-02

Updated

2023-02-13

Description by

CVSS 2.0

5.6

Medium

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.19

Description A use-after-free issue in the xacct add tsk function allows local users to potentially obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash, by utilizing a taskstats TASKSTATS CMD ATTR PID command.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.6.19, update to version 2.6.19 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Alexander Peslyak

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

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