CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-0977

Published: May 02, 2005 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The shmem_nopage function in shmem.c for the tmpfs driver in Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly verify the address argument, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via an invalid address.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.8.1.5 (including) 2.6.8.1.5 (including)

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