CVE-2012-4530

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.9%

from disclosure to weapon330 days

Published on NVDFeb 18

1st PoC+330d

exploitation probability

0.9%top 44% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The load_script function in fs/binfmt_script.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.2 does not properly handle recursion, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted application.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b66c5984017533316fd1951770302649baf1aa33 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00018.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0223.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868285 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b66c5984017533316fd1951770302649baf1aa33 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.7.2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/19/3