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CVE-2011-2906

Published: May 24, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Integer signedness error in the pmcraid_ioctl_passthrough function in drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 might allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or memory corruption) via a negative size value in an ioctl call. NOTE: this may be a vulnerability only in unusual environments that provide a privileged program for obtaining the required file descriptor.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20110810 Re: CVE requests: Two kernel issues

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b5b515445f4f5a905c5dd27e6e682868ccd6c09d

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b5b515445f4f5a905c5dd27e6e682868ccd6c09d

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