CVE-2011-4097

Desbordamiento de entero en la función oom_badness en mm/oom_kill.c en el núcleo de Linux anteriores a v3.1.8 en plataformas de 64 bits, que permite a usuarios locales causar una denegación de servicio (consumo de memoria y terminación del proceso) mediante el uso de una cierta cantidad grande de memoria.

Updates have been made to the Linux kernel. SG_IO ioctl SCSI requests on partitions or LVM volumes could be passed to the underlying block device, allowing a privileged user to bypass restrictions and gain read and write access to the entire block device. A local, unprivileged user could use an integer overflow flaw in drm_mode_dirtyfb_ioctl() to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. A local, unprivileged user could use an integer overflow flaw in drm_mode_dirtyfb_ioctl() to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. A local, unprivileged user could use a flaw in the Performance Events implementation to cause a denial of service. Various other issues have also been addressed.