CVE-2012-0875 Information

Description

SystemTap 1.7 1.6.7 and probably other versions when unprivileged mode is enabled allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (kernel panic and crash) via vectors related to crafted DWARF data which triggers a read of an invalid pointer.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00057.html http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/6987 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0376.html http://securitytracker.com/id?1026777 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13714 http://sourceware.org/git/?p=systemtap.git;a=commit;h=64b0cff3b