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kernel: null pointer reference on readonly regsets

Package(s):kernel CVE #(s):CVE-2012-1097
Created:March 12, 2012 Updated:November 5, 2012
Description: From the Red Hat bugzilla:

The regset common infrastructure assumed that regsets would always have .get and .set methods, but not necessarily .active methods. Unfortunately people have since written regsets without .set methods.

Rather than putting in stub functions everywhere, handle regsets with null .get or .set methods explicitly.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2012-3350 2012-03-10
Fedora FEDORA-2012-3356 2012-03-15
Ubuntu USN-1407-1 2012-03-27
Ubuntu USN-1406-1 2012-03-27
Ubuntu USN-1405-1 2012-03-27
Debian DSA-2443-1 2012-03-26
Ubuntu USN-1421-1 2012-04-12
Ubuntu USN-1422-1 2012-04-12
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0481-01 2012-04-17
CentOS CESA-2012:0481 2012-04-18
Scientific Linux SL-kern-20120418 2012-04-18
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0540-1 2012-04-20
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:0554-1 2012-04-23
Oracle ELSA-2012-0481 2012-04-23
Oracle ELSA-2012-2007 2012-04-23
Oracle ELSA-2012-2007 2012-04-23
Oracle ELSA-2012-2008 2012-04-23
Oracle ELSA-2012-2008 2012-04-23
Ubuntu USN-1425-1 2012-04-24
Ubuntu USN-1426-1 2012-04-24
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:0554-2 2012-04-26
Ubuntu USN-1431-1 2012-04-30
Ubuntu USN-1433-1 2012-04-30
Ubuntu USN-1440-1 2012-05-08
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:0616-1 2012-05-14
Ubuntu USN-1458-1 2012-05-31
Red Hat RHSA-2012:1042-01 2012-06-26
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0799-1 2012-06-28
Oracle ELSA-2012-2022 2012-07-02
Oracle ELSA-2012-2022 2012-07-02
Oracle ELSA-2012-0862 2012-07-02
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1439-1 2012-11-05

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