{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2012-03-03T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: regset: Prevent null pointer reference on readonly regsets",
    "id" : "799209",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799209"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.9",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "The regset (aka register set) feature in the Linux kernel before 3.2.10 does not properly handle the absence of .get and .set methods, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a (1) PTRACE_GETREGSET or (2) PTRACE_SETREGSET ptrace call." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as it did not backport upstream commits 4206d3aa and 5bde4d18.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank H. Peter Anvin for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2012-04-17T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:0481",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-220.13.1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 EUS - Server Only",
    "release_date" : "2012-06-26T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:1042",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:6.1",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-131.29.1.el6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "realtime-kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-1097\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1097" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2012-1097",
  "csaw" : false
}