CVE-2012-1097
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 17, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 14, 2012
Description
The regset (aka register set) feature in the Linux kernel before 3.2.10 does not properly handle the absence of .get and .set methods, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a (1) PTRACE_GETREGSET or (2) PTRACE_SETREGSET ptrace call.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- RHSA-2012:0531vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2012:0554vendor-advisory
- 48898third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799209
- RHSA-2012:0481vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20120305 CVE-2012-1097 kernel: regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsetsmailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10
- 48964third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e
- SUSE-SU-2012:0616vendor-advisory
- 48842third-party-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e
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