CVE detail
CVE-2012-1097 — CVE-2012-1097
Published 2012-05-17 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor linux · Product linux_kernel · Source nvd
HIGH
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0035
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
28.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
Description
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References