CVE-2011-5321
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 2, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 13, 2015
Description
The tty_open function in drivers/tty/tty_io.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1.1 mishandles a driver-lookup failure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted access to a device file under the /dev/pts directory.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20150313 Re: CVE request: Linux kernel: tty: kobject reference leakage in tty_openmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c290f8358acaeffd8e0c551ddcc24d1206143376
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1.1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201887
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c290f8358acaeffd8e0c551ddcc24d1206143376
- RHSA-2015:1221vendor-advisory
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