{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2008-11-15T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: futex: clear robust_list on execve",
    "id" : "771764",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=771764"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.2",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as it did not have support for robust futexes. It did not affect Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they have the backported fixes. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0107.html.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2012-02-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:0107",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-274.18.1.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 EUS - Server Only",
    "release_date" : "2012-03-06T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:0358",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:5.6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-238.35.1.el5"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "realtime-kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-0028\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0028" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-0028",
  "csaw" : false
}