CVE-2004-0596 Information

Description

The Equalizer Load-balancer for serial network interfaces (eql.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service via a non-existent device name that triggers a null dereference.

Reference

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@40d4aa72hPLWy-jMLr0eJAXMxHcNZg http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10730 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16694