CVE-2012-3510

CVE Details

Release Date:	2006-10-30
Impact:	Moderate	What is this?

Description

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.

See more information about CVE-2012-3510 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	5.6
Vector String:	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Local
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None
Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2012-1323	2012-10-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel)	ELSA-2012-1323-1	2012-10-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2012-1323-1	2012-10-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (ocfs2-2.6.18-308.16.1.el5)	ELSA-2012-1323	2012-10-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.0.1.el5)	ELSA-2012-1323-1	2012-10-02
Oracle Linux version 5 (oracleasm-2.6.18-308.16.1.el5)	ELSA-2012-1323	2012-10-02