Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's etm_setup_aux Function

CVE-2018-11232 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The etm_setup_aux function in drivers/hwtracing/coresight/coresight-etm-perf.c in the Linux kernel before 4.10.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) because a parameter is incorrectly used as a local variable.

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