CVE-2012-3487 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Race condition in Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier allows local users to kill unintended processes by waiting for a specific PID value to be assigned to a target process.

Published: 2012-08-26

Score: 1.2 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:google:tunnelblick:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2012-3443	Race condition in Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier allows local users to kill unintended processes by waiting for a specific PID value to be assigned to a target process.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00118.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2012-08/0122.html
http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/issues/detail?id=212
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/14/1

History

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Subscriptions

Google Tunnelblick

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2012-08-26T19:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T03:42:57.974Z

Reserved: 2012-06-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-3487

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2012-08-26T19:55:02.120

Modified: 2026-06-16T23:43:19.203

Link: CVE-2012-3487

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-362
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

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