CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1082
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-04-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
fs/eventpoll.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38 places epoll file descriptors within other epoll data structures without properly checking for (1) closed loops or (2) deep chains, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock or stack memory consumption) via a crafted application that makes epoll_create and epoll_ctl system calls.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.38)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=22bacca48a1755f79b7e0f192ddb9fbb7fc6e64e git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/02/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/02/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681575 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/5/220 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=22bacca48a1755f79b7e0f192ddb9fbb7fc6e64e git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/02/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/02/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.38 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681575 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/5/220 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory