Published: 17/05/2012 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 437

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Integer overflow in the perf_event_interrupt function in arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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Synopsis Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic Updated kernel packages that fix various security issues and several bugsare now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity ...

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's XFS file system implementation handled links with overly long path names A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges by mounting a specially-crafted disk (CVE-2011-4077, Moderate) Flaws in ghash_update() and ghash_final() co ...

Multiple kernel vulnerabilities have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel vulnerabilities have been fixed ...

Multiple kernel flaws have been fixed ...

CWE-189 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93 http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767914 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/15/2 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0837e3242c73566fc1c0196b4ec61779c25ffc93 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:0350 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1141-1/https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2012-55.html

CVE-2011-4611

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