CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
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.
ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19
git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html
secunia.com/advisories/50811
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/12
www.securityfocus.com/bid/55144
www.securitytracker.com/id?1027602
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849722
github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9