CVE-2005-2100 Information

Description

The rw_vm function in usercopy.c in the 4GB split patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not perform proper bounds checking which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/17073 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165547 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11556