Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.4 ELF Loader

CVE-2004-0138 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The ELF loader in Linux kernel 2.4 before 2.4.25 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted ELF file with an interpreter with an invalid arch (architecture), which triggers a BUG() when an invalid VMA is unmapped.

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