ID:10068 - Exploit for Memory corruption in Linux kernel - CVE-2009-3234

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Buffer overflow in the perf_copy_attr function in kernel/perf_counter.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.31-rc1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a 'big size data' to the perf_counter_open system call.

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