PT-2013-1399 · Red Hat · Red Hat

CVE-2011-2693 · Published 2013-06-08 · Updated 2023-02-13

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

1.9

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 kernel package version 2.6.32-122.el6.x86 64

Description The perf subsystem in the kernel does not properly handle Non-Maskable Interrupts (NMIs), which could allow local users to cause a denial of service by generating excessive log messages.

Recommendations For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 kernel package version 2.6.32-122.el6.x86 64, update to a newer version that properly handles NMIs to prevent the denial of service.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-2693

Affected Products

Red Hat

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2693 · Security Note
• https://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=redpatch.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fadca7bdc43b02f518585d9547019966415cadfd · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688547 · Note