Security Advisory

CVE-2009-3234

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-09-17 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 06:22:23

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

Buffer overflow in the perf_copy_attr function in kernel/perf_counter.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a "big size data" to the perf_counter_open system call.

← Browse all CVEs View on cve.org ↗