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CVE-2011-4594

CVE-2011-4594

EPSS 0.4%
The __sys_sendmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via crafted use of the sendmmsg system call, leading to an incorrect pointer dereference.
Affected products
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References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=bc909d9ddbf7778371e36a651d6e4194b1cc7d4chttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=761646https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/bc909d9ddbf7778371e36a651d6e4194b1cc7d4chttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/12/08/4