ghsa-w32m-rx9f-gjv3
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 04:00
Modified
2022-05-14 04:00
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2011-5321"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-05-02T10:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-w32m-rx9f-gjv3",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T04:00:14Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T04:00:14Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-5321"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c290f8358acaeffd8e0c551ddcc24d1206143376"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201887"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c290f8358acaeffd8e0c551ddcc24d1206143376"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1221.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/13/17"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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