Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.7

CVE-2004-0596 · LOW Severity

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

The Equalizer Load-balancer for serial network interfaces (eql.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service via a non-existent device name that triggers a null dereference.

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