CVE-2011-4621
The Linux kernel before 2.6.37 does not properly implement a certain clock-update optimization, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via an application that executes code in a loop.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2012-05-17
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Affected products
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.37
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f26f9aff6aaf67e9a430d16c266f91b13a5bff64
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/21/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769711
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f26f9aff6aaf67e9a430d16c266f91b13a5bff64
