Denial of Service Vulnerability in perf Subsystem of RHEL 6

CVE-2011-2693 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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