CVE-2013-4220

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 3.9.5

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash. This occurs via vectors involving an attempted register access that triggers an unexpected value in the Exception Syndrome Register (ESR), specifically through the bad mode function in arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c on the ARM64 platform.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.9.5, update to version 3.9.5 or later to resolve the issue.