CVE-2011-1759 Information

Description

Integer overflow in the sys_oabi_semtimedop function in arch/arm/kernel/sys_oabi-compat.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on the ARM platform when CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT is enabled allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by providing a crafted argument and leveraging a race condition.

Reference

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0f22072ab50cac7983f9660d33974b45184da4f9 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/05/02/16 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0f22072ab50cac7983f9660d33974b45184da4f9