Vulnerability Report

CVE-2012-1097

Title: Redhat Enterprise Linux Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2012-1097.

CWE Category CWE-476
Published Date May 17, 2012
Modified Date Apr 29, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2012-1097: 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 Vendors

U
ubuntu 1
S
suse 3
L
linux 1
R
redhat 2

Reference Links

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html http://secunia.com/advisories/48842 http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799209 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html http://secunia.com/advisories/48842 http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799209 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.8
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.2
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2012-1097 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.