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CVE-2012-3510

Published: Oct 3, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the xacct_add_tsk function in kernel/tsacct.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a taskstats TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID command.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9

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third-party-advisory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849722

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vendor-advisory

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vdb-entry

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[oss-security] 20120820 Re: CVE Request -- kernel: taskstats: use-after-free in xacct_add_tsk()

mailing-list

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9

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vdb-entry

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http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19

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