CVE-2012-0957

Name	CVE-2012-0957
Description	The override_release function in kernel/sys.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.16 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a uname system call in conjunction with a UNAME26 personality.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.269-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.158-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.162-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.15-1	fixed
	sid	6.1.20-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	(unstable)	3.2.32-1
linux-2.6	source	squeeze	(not affected)
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

[squeeze] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Introduced in 3.0)
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/9/550