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Linux Kernel SYSFS Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA19495
Release Date: 2006-04-07
Last Update: 2006-04-10
Popularity: 16,728 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Linux Kernel 2.6.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Linux Kernel, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an out-of-bounds memory error in the "fill_write_buffer()" function in sysfs/file.c when writing exactly PAGE_SIZE amount of data with no zeroes in it to a sysfs file.

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