Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

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 sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (system crash) via a taskstats TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID command.

EPSS: 0.005 (40.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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