CVE-2011-2918

Published: May 24, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

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

References

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

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233

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[oss-security] 20110816 Re: CVE request -- kernel: perf: fix software event overflow

mailing-list

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730706

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CVE-2011-2918

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