CVE-2012-3510

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• n/a

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50811
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849722
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55144
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/12
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027602
• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19

References

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50811
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849722
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55144
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/12
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027602
• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19

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