CVE-2005-0977

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2005-02-05
Bugzilla:
1617594: CVE-2005-0977 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2005-0977 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2005:366 2005-04-19

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