NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-rt-trace package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-KERNELRTTRACE-12214223
  • published28 Aug 2025
  • disclosed3 Mar 2012

Introduced: 3 Mar 2012

CVE-2012-1097  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 kernel-rt-trace.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-trace package and not the kernel-rt-trace package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1