CVE-2011-2918

The Performance Events subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.1 does not properly handle event overflows associated with PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK events, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via a crafted application.

Date published : 2012-05-24

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=a8b0ca17b80e92faab46ee7179ba9e99ccb61233

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1