CVE-2013-4220

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).

Date published : 2013-08-24

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9955ac47f4ba1c95ecb6092aeaefb40a22e99268

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.9.5