Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.6.11 with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.6.11 with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE

CVE-2005-0916 · LOW Severity

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

AIO in the Linux kernel 2.6.11 on the PPC64 or IA64 architectures with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE enabled allows local users to cause a denial of service (system panic) via a process that executes the io_queue_init function but exits without running io_queue_release, which causes exit_aio and is_hugepage_only_range to fail.

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