CVE-2005-2617 Information

Description

The syscall32_setup_pages function in syscall32.c for Linux kernel 2.6.12 and later on the 64-bit x86 platform does not check the return value of the insert_vm_struct function which allows local users to trigger a memory leak via a 32-bit application with crafted ELF headers.

Reference

http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=9fb1759a3102c26cd8f64254a7c3e532782c2bb8 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=9fb1759a3102c26cd8f64254a7c3e532782c2bb8