CVE-2009-3234 (GCVE-0-2009-3234)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-09-17 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:22
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Summary
Buffer overflow in the perf_copy_attr function in kernel/perf_counter.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a "big size data" to the perf_counter_open system call.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2009-09-16 00:00
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