CVE-2011-3209 Information

Description

The div_long_long_rem implementation in include/asm-x86/div64.h in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 on the x86 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (Divide Error Fault and panic) via a clock_gettime system call.

Reference

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=f8bd2258e2d520dff28c855658bd24bdafb5102d http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/24/3 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732878 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f8bd2258e2d520dff28c855658bd24bdafb5102d