Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 2.6 tmpfs Driver

CVE-2005-0977 · LOW Severity

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

The shmem_nopage function in shmem.c for the tmpfs driver in Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly verify the address argument, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via an invalid address.

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