CVE-2012-1568: Fedoraproject Fedora

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The ExecShield feature in a certain Red Hat patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 and 6 and Fedora 15 and 16 does not properly handle use of many shared libraries by a 32-bit executable file, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism by leveraging a predictable base address for one of these libraries.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 15 only; version 16 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2013-03-01. Last modified 2026-06-16.