CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1097
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.0.24)
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.1 < 3.2.10)
• redhat enterprise linux 4.0
• redhat enterprise mrg 2.0
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise high availability extension 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48842 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799209 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48842 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 Broken Link
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799209 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e Patch, Third Party Advisory