CVE-2005-0736 - Secunia.com

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0736
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Description: Integer overflow in sys_epoll_wait in eventpoll.c for Linux kernel 2.6 to 2.6.11 allows local users to overwrite kernel memory via a large number of events.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-95-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_18_kernel.html REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-366.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-293.html OVAL http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9870 FULLDISC http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-March/032314.html CONFIRM http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@422dd06a1p5PsyFhoGAJseinjEq3ew?nav=index.html\|ChangeSet@-1d BID 12763

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