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CVE-2011-1083

2011-04-0400:00:00
ubuntu.com
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4.9 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

0.4%

The epoll implementation in the Linux kernel 2.6.37.2 and earlier does not
properly traverse a tree of epoll file descriptors, which allows local
users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted
application that makes epoll_create and epoll_ctl system calls.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
henrix This has been fixed for a while with 93dc6107a76daed81c07f50215fa6ae77691634f

4.9 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

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

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

0.4%