Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel-rt is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists through the chaseport function...

CVE-2013-1774

The chaseport function in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via an attempted /dev/ttyUSB read or write operation on a disconnected Edgeport USB serial converter...

CVE-2013-1774: Undefined Security Weakness

The chaseport function in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and system crash via an attempted /dev/ttyUSB read or write operation on a disconnected Edgeport USB serial converter...