Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerability in IBM AIX and VIOS through PT_LDINFO Operation

Denial of Service and Information Disclosure Vulnerability in IBM AIX and VIOS through PT_LDINFO Operation

CVE-2014-0930 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The ptrace system call in IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1, and VIOS 2.2.x, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted PT_LDINFO operation.

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