CVE-2011-2918

23Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Attendepss 0.9%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDMay 24

1st PoCSep 1

exploitation probability

0.9%top 43% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

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References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730706 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/08/16/1