CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1568
1.9 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-03-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Description
The ExecShield feature in a certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 and Fedora 15 and 16 does not properly handle use of many shared libraries by a 32-bit executable file, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism by leveraging a predictable base address for one of these libraries.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 15
• fedoraproject fedora 16
• redhat enterprise linux 5
• redhat enterprise linux 6.0
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/3 openwall.com
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2012/03/some-random-observations-on-linux-aslr.html scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/20/4 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804947 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=302a4fc15aebf202b6dffd6c804377c6058ee6e4 oss.oracle.com
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/21/3 openwall.com
- http://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2012/03/some-random-observations-on-linux-aslr.html scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/20/4 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804947 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=302a4fc15aebf202b6dffd6c804377c6058ee6e4 oss.oracle.com