Unregistered CPUID and MSR Drivers Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2001-1392 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The Linux kernel before 2.2.19 does not have unregister calls for (1) CPUID and (2) MSR drivers, which could cause a DoS (crash) by unloading and reloading the drivers.

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