cve/2011/CVE-2011-4594.md

### [CVE-2011-4594](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4594)
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### Description

The __sys_sendmsg function in net/socket.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via crafted use of the sendmmsg system call, leading to an incorrect pointer dereference.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1

#### Github
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