CVE-2005-1264

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2005-05-17
Bugzilla:
1617621: CVE-2005-1264 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Raw character devices (raw.c) in the Linux kernel 2.6.x call the wrong function before passing an ioctl to the block device, which crosses security boundaries by making kernel address space accessible from user space, a similar vulnerability to CVE-2005-1589.

Find out more about CVE-2005-1264 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2005:420 2005-06-08

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