CVE-2005-0977 Information

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.

Reference

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@420551fbRlv9-QG6Gw9Lw_bKVfPSsg http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/5/111 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-366.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12970 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10400 https://usn.ubuntu.com/103-1/