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CVE-2012-3510

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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.

Date published : 2012-10-03

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55144

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.19

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