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ghsa-4v9j-mhhp-7qmp

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:24

Modified

2022-05-13 01:24

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

The Performance Events subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 does not properly handle event overflows associated with PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK events, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted application.

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  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:24:57Z",
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cve-2011-2918

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2012-05-24 23:00

Modified

2024-08-06 23:15

Severity ?

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/16/1	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730706	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	n/a	n/a

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