CVE-2011-4611

Published: 5/17/2012 Last updated: 8/7/2024 Reserved: 11/29/2011

Integer overflow in the perf_event_interrupt function in arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on powerpc platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (unhandled performance monitor exception) via vectors that trigger certain outcomes of performance events.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (27)

albatross cdrom conf-bpftool conf-libbpf conf-linux-libc-dev core core_unix hvsock mirage-block-unix mm ocaml-probes orun rawlink rawlink-eio rawlink-lwt shell solo5 solo5-bindings-hvt solo5-bindings-spt solo5-cross-aarch64 solo5-kernel-ukvm tracy-client tuntap uring vhd-format vhd-format-lwt xapi-stdext-unix

Products affected (1)

Product	Vendor	Version
n/a	n/a	Snapdragon 835 Mobile PC Platform

References (10)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/15/2
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767914
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/15/2
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767914