CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1083
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
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.37.2)
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1105744 Broken Link
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1105888 Broken Link
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1106686 Broken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- 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
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0862.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43522 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48115 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48410 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/71265 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1105744 Broken Link
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1105888 Broken Link
- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1106686 Broken Link
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00013.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- 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
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0862.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43522 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48115 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48410 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48964 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/71265 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681578 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory