Description
The bad_mode function in arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9.5 on the ARM64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving an attempted register access that triggers an unexpected value in the Exception Syndrome Register (ESR).
Affected products
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References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9955ac47f4ba1c95ecb6092aeaefb40a22e99268 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/08/12 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=996380 ↗
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9955ac47f4ba1c95ecb6092aeaefb40a22e99268 ↗
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.9.5 ↗