CVE-2012-0875: Systemtap

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Systemtap Systemtap: version 1.6.7 only; version 1.7 only

Published 2014-02-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.