Security Advisory

CVE-2011-5321

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-05-02 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 00:30:46

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The tty_open function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.1 mishandles a driver-lookup failure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted access to a device file under the /dev/pts directory.

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