Security Advisory

CVE-2011-2521

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-05-24 23:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 23:00:34

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

The x86_assign_hw_event function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_event.c in the Performance Events subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 does not properly calculate counter values, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via the perf program.

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