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CVE-2011-1083 (GCVE-0-2011-1083)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-04-03 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14
VLAI
Summary
The epoll implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.37.2 and earlier does not properly traverse a tree of epoll file descriptors, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted application that makes epoll_create and epoll_ctl system calls.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2011-02-25 00:00
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