CVE-2012-3510: Use After Free

First published: Mon Aug 20 2012(Updated: )

An use-after-free flaw has been found in the way taskstat's TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID command and exiting tasks with already freed mm interacted. An unprivileged local user could use this flaw to crash the system or leak kernel memory. Upstream fix: <a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9">http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f0ec1aaf54caddd21c259aea8b2ecfbde4ee4fb9</a> References: <a href="http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2294">http://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2294</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Alexander Peslyak for reporting this issue.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

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