Security Advisory

CVE-2005-0977

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-04-05 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 21:35:58
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.