Published: 17/05/2012 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 642

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The regset (aka register set) feature in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and three bugs arenow available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 61 Extended Update SupportThe Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update a ...

Synopsis Moderate: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs,and add various enhancements are now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rate ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2009-4307 Nageswara R Sastry reported an issue in the ext4 filesystem Local users with the privileges to mount a filesystem c ...

Several security issues were fixed in the kernel ...

CWE-476 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/1 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799209 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10 http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 http://secunia.com/advisories/48842 http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1042 https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-2443 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1422-1/

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