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systemtap: denial of service

Package(s):systemtap CVE #(s):CVE-2012-0875
Created:February 27, 2012 Updated:March 18, 2013
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

A flaw was discovered in how systemtap handled DWARF expressions when unwinding the stack. This could result in an invalid pointer read, leading to reading kernel memory, or a kernel panic (and if the kernel reboot on panic flag was set (panic_on_oops), it would cause the system to reboot).

In order to trigger this flaw, an admin would have to enable unprivileged mode (giving users membership in the 'stapusr' group and configuring the local machine with 'signer,all-users' stap-server trust). If an admin has enabled unprivileged mode, a user with such access could use this to crash the local machine.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-2213 2012-02-25
Fedora FEDORA-2012-2218 2012-02-25
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0376-01 2012-03-08
CentOS CESA-2012:0376 2012-03-08
CentOS CESA-2012:0376 2012-03-09
Oracle ELSA-2012-0376 2012-03-09
Oracle ELSA-2012-0376 2012-03-09
Scientific Linux SL-syst-20120321 2012-03-21
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0475-1 2013-03-18

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