CVE-2011-2918

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.

🔗 References (10)

• secalert@redhathttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233
• secalert@redhathttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
• secalert@redhathttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/16/1
• secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730706
• secalert@redhathttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/16/1
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730706
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233