Denial of Service and RLIM_MEMLOCK Bypass Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x

CVE-2005-0179 · LOW Severity

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

Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) and bypass RLIM_MEMLOCK limits via the mlockall call.

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