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CVE-2012-3510

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 sensit…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
through 2.6.18.8
Versions 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.6.11.1, 2.6.11.2, 2.6.11.3

Weakness classification

References