Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in SystemTap - CVE-2012-0875

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in SystemTap - CVE-2012-0875

Published: February 5, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU42075
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0875
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: SystemTap
Affected software:
SystemTap

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to #BASIC_IMPACT#.

SystemTap 1.7, 1.6.7, and probably other versions, when unprivileged mode is enabled, allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (kernel panic and crash) via vectors related to crafted DWARF data, which triggers a read of an invalid pointer.


How to mitigate CVE-2012-0875

Install update from vendor's website.

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