Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's __sys_sendmsg Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's __sys_sendmsg Function

CVE-2011-4594 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

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