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CVE-2012-0875

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-02-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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.

Affected products

• Systemtap: 1.6.7, 1.7

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00057.html
• http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/6987
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0376.html
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1026777
• http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13714
• http://sourceware.org/git/?p=systemtap.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64b0cff3b
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00057.html
• http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/6987
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0376.html
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1026777
• http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13714
• http://sourceware.org/git/?p=systemtap.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64b0cff3b

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