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CVE-2012-3510

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
03/10/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.60 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
5.60
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 2.6.18.8 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.10:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.10:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.10:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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