Denial of Service Vulnerability in ARM64 Kernel's bad_mode Function

CVE-2013-4220 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The bad_mode function in arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9.5 on the ARM64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving an attempted register access that triggers an unexpected value in the Exception Syndrome Register (ESR).

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