{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com", "ID": "CVE-2012-1097", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "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." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "RHSA-2012:0531", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0531.html" }, { "name": "SUSE-SU-2012:0554", "refsource": "SUSE", "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html" }, { "name": "48898", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/48898" }, { "name": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799209", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799209" }, { "name": "RHSA-2012:0481", "refsource": "REDHAT", "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0481.html" }, { "name": "[oss-security] 20120305 CVE-2012-1097 kernel: regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets", "refsource": "MLIST", "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/05/1" }, { "name": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.2.10" }, { "name": "48964", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/48964" }, { "name": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e" }, { "name": "SUSE-SU-2012:0616", "refsource": "SUSE", "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html" }, { "name": "48842", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/48842" }, { "name": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=c8e252586f8d5de906385d8cf6385fee289a825e" } ] } }