CVE-2011-4594

Published: May 17, 2012

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The __sys_sendmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via crafted use of the sendmmsg system call, leading to an incorrect pointer dereference.

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

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bc909d9ddbf7778371e36a651d6e4194b1cc7d4c

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bc909d9ddbf7778371e36a651d6e4194b1cc7d4c

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761646

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

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[oss-security] 20111208 Re: CVE Request -- kernel: send(m)msg: user pointer dereferences

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CVE-2011-4594

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