CVE-2011-3209

medium

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.

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f8bd2258e2d520dff28c855658bd24bdafb5102d

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2011-3173

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732878

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/10/24/3

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f8bd2258e2d520dff28c855658bd24bdafb5102d

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-10-03

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H