Upstream information

CVE-2012-1568 at MITRE

Description

The ExecShield feature in a certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 and Fedora 15 and 16 does not properly handle use of many shared libraries by a 32-bit executable file, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism by leveraging a predictable base address for one of these libraries.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 1.9
Vector AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

Note from the SUSE Security Team

This issue is a flaw in a Redhat specific ASLR variant, which is not included in SUSE Linux and openSUSE Kernels. So we are not affected by this problem.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 753040 [RESOLVED / UPSTREAM]

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 12:34:09 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Oct 7 12:46:14 2022