Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2011-1479. PoCs published by anonymous.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit triggers a local denial-of-service (DoS) in the Linux kernel by exhausting system resources. It bypasses the inotify instances limit by creating pipes until failure, then continuously initializing inotify instances to cause an out-of-memory condition.
Description
Double free vulnerability in the inotify subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via vectors involving failed attempts to create files. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2010-4250.
Exploits (1)
This exploit triggers a local denial-of-service (DoS) in the Linux kernel by exhausting system resources. It bypasses the inotify instances limit by creating pipes until failure, then continuously initializing inotify instances to cause an out-of-memory condition.