CVE-2005-1369 Information

Description

The (1) it87 and (2) via686a drivers in I2C for Linux 2.6.x before 2.6.11.8 and 2.6.12 before 2.6.12-rc2 create the sysfs \alarms\ file with write permissions which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by attempting to write to the file which does not have an associated store function.

Reference

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.8 http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/159 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded