CVE-2011-2183

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 0.5%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDJun 13

1st PoCJun 2

exploitation probability

0.5%top 58% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Race condition in the scan_get_next_rmap_item function in mm/ksm.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.3, when Kernel SamePage Merging (KSM) is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/35820

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References

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.3 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2b472611a32a72f4a118c069c2d62a1a3f087afd https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=710338 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2b472611a32a72f4a118c069c2d62a1a3f087afd http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/1