CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2918
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- 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 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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 3.1)
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=a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233 git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/16/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730706 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233 git.kernel.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1 Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/16/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730706 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233 Patch, Third Party Advisory