CVE-2011-2693

Severity

19%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

48%

The perf subsystem in the kernel package 2.6.32-122.el6.x86_64 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle NMIs, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (excessive log messages) via unspecified vectors.

The perf subsystem in the kernel package 2.6.32-122.el6.x86_64 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 does not properly handle NMIs, which might allow local users to cause a denial of service (excessive log messages) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-06-08 13:05:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-22 17:48:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

6.0

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688547

https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git;a=commit;h=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd

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