Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's div_long_long_rem Implementation

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's div_long_long_rem Implementation

CVE-2011-3209 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The div_long_long_rem implementation in include/asm-x86/div64.h in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 on the x86 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (Divide Error Fault and panic) via a clock_gettime system call.

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