CVE-2009-0605

CVE-2009-0605 · MEDIUM Severity

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

Stack consumption vulnerability in the do_page_fault function in arch/x86/mm/fault.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that trigger page faults on a machine that has a registered Kprobes probe.

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