CVE-2012-3510

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.18.8; 2.6.10, 2.6.10-rc1, 2.6.10-rc2, 2.6.10-rc3, 2.6.11, 2.6.11-rc1 (+180)

References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50811
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/20/12
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55144
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027602
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849722
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html

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