← Vulnerability feed

Vulnerability record · CVE-2012-0875 · published 4 February 2014

CVE-2012-0875: Systemtap permissions and access controls vulnerability

Systemtap · Systemtap

SystemTap 1.7, 1.6.7, and probably other versions, when unprivileged mode is enabled, allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (kernel panic and crash) via vectors related to crafted DWARF data, which triggers a read of an invalid pointer.

5.4 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 0.35% · top 74.0% CWE-264 · Permissions and access controls
5.4CVSS 2.0 base score
0.35%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
12References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

SystemTap 1.7, 1.6.7, and probably other versions, when unprivileged mode is enabled, allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory or cause a denial of service (kernel panic and crash) via vectors related to crafted DWARF data, which triggers a read of an invalid pointer.

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00057.html
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/6987
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0376.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1026777
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13714
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=systemtap.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64b0cff3b
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00057.html
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/6987
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0376.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1026777
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13714
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=systemtap.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=64b0cff3b

Track CVE-2012-0875 inside VULONE

Watch it alongside the ransomware crews, C2 infrastructure and forum chatter that reference it, query it through the API and pull it into your SIEM over TAXII.

Start free Open in platform

Related vulnerabilities

Same products first, then exploited flaws of the same weakness class.

10.0CVE-2009-4273Systemtap code injection vulnerabilitystap-server in SystemTap before 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in stap command-line arguments in …EPSS 18%7.5CVE-2010-0412Systemtap vulnerabilitystap-server in SystemTap 1.1 does not properly restrict the value of the -B (aka BUILD) option, which allows attackers to have an unspecified impact …EPSS 1.7%7.2CVE-2010-4170Systemtap permissions and access controls vulnerabilityThe staprun runtime tool in SystemTap 1.3 does not properly clear the environment before executing modprobe, which allows local users to gain privile…EPSS 5.3%6.3CVE-2009-0784Systemtap race condition vulnerabilityRace condition in the SystemTap stap tool 0.0.20080705 and 0.0.20090314 allows local users in the stapusr group to insert arbitrary SystemTap kernel …EPSS 0.26%4.9CVE-2010-0411Systemtap vulnerabilityMultiple integer signedness errors in the (1) __get_argv and (2) __get_compat_argv functions in tapset/aux_syscalls.stp in SystemTap 1.1 allow local …EPSS 0.95%4.4CVE-2011-2502Systemtap improper input validation vulnerabilityruntime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c in the systemtap runtime tool (staprun) in SystemTap before 1.6 does not properly validate modules when a module path…EPSS 0.52%3.7CVE-2011-2503Systemtap improper input validation vulnerabilityThe insert_module function in runtime/staprun/staprun_funcs.c in the systemtap runtime tool (staprun) in SystemTap before 1.6 does not properly valid…EPSS 0.44%2.1CVE-2010-4171Systemtap improper input validation vulnerabilityThe staprun runtime tool in SystemTap 1.3 does not verify that a module to unload was previously loaded by SystemTap, which allows local users to cau…EPSS 0.40%

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2012-0875), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.