SystemTap DWARF Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Affected Systems:
SystemTap 1. 4 .. 6
Systemtapping SystemTap 1.4
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 52121

SystemTap is a Linux kernel diagnostic tool that allows you to quickly and securely obtain information from the running Linux kernel.

SystemTap has a local denial of service vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause kernel crash and DoS attacks to legitimate users.

<* Source: Vincent Danen

Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi? CVE-2012-0875
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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

SystemTap
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://sourceware.org/systemtap/