cve-2012-1097
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-05-17 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 18:45
Severity ?
Summary
The regset (aka register set) feature in the Linux kernel before 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.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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