National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-1759

Overview

Integer overflow in the sys_oabi_semtimedop function in arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on the ARM platform, when CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT is enabled, allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by providing a crafted argument and leveraging a race condition.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0f22072ab50cac7983f9660d33974b45184da4f9

Type: Patch Information; Exploit

Hyperlink:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0f22072ab50cac7983f9660d33974b45184da4f9

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f22072ab50cac7983f9660d33974b45184da4f9

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f22072ab50cac7983f9660d33974b45184da4f9

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20110502 Re: CVE request: kernel (ARM): heap corruption in OABI semtimedop

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/02/16

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39

Hyperlink:http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39