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CVE Reference: CVE-2005-1369
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2005-1369

Description:
The (1) it87 and (2) via686a drivers in I2C for Linux 2.6.x before 2.6.11.8, and 2.6.12 before 2.6.12-rc2, create the sysfs "alarms" file with write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by attempting to write to the file, which does not have an associated store function.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

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

CONFIRM
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/159
  http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.8


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