Security Advisory

CVE-2011-2211

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-06-13 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 22:53:17

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

The osf_wait4 function in arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.4 on the Alpha platform uses an incorrect pointer, which allows local users to gain privileges by writing a certain integer value to kernel memory.

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