Security Advisory

CVE-2012-3510

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-10-03 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 20:05:12
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.