Security Advisory

CVE-2012-0957

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-12-21 11:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 18:45:25
Assigner canonical
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The override_release function in kernel/sys.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.16 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a uname system call in conjunction with a UNAME26 personality.