CVE-2012-0028

The robust futex implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28 does not properly handle processes that make exec system calls, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges by writing to a memory location in a child process.

Date published : 2012-06-21

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8141c7f3e7aee618312fa1c15109e1219de784a7