Security Advisory

CVE-2009-1914

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-06-04 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 05:27:54
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The pci_register_iommu_region function in arch/sparc/kernel/pci_common.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 on the sparc64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by reading the /proc/iomem file, related to uninitialized pointers and the request_resource function.