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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-0977
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CVE-2005-0977

Description:
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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

UBUNTU
  http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-103-1

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-366.html

FEDORA
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded

CONFIRM
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/2/5/111
  http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@420551fbRlv9-QG6Gw9Lw_bKVfPSsg

BID
  12970


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