CVE-2011-1769

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-05-11
Bugzilla:
702687: CVE-2011-1769 systemtap: does not guard against DWARF operations div-by-zero errors, which can cause a kernel panic

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

SystemTap 1.4 and earlier, when unprivileged (aka stapusr) mode is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (divide-by-zero error and OOPS) via a crafted ELF program with DWARF expressions that are not properly handled by a stap script that performs context variable access.

Find out more about CVE-2011-1769 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.6
Base Metrics AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Adjacent Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (systemtap) RHSA-2011:0842 2011-05-31
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (systemtap) RHSA-2011:0841 2011-05-31

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 systemtap Not affected

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