The sysfs_readdir function in the Linux kernel 2.6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.5 and other distributions, allows users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) by dereferencing a null pointer to an inode in a dentry.
Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
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Linux_kernel | Linux | 2.6.0 (including) | 2.6.0 (including) |