Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.11]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3005340
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 May 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2005

CVE-2005-0916  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for torvalds/linux.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). AIO in the Linux kernel 2.6.11 on the PPC64 or IA64 architectures with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE enabled allows local users to cause a denial of service (system panic) via a process that executes the io_queue_init function but exits without running io_queue_release, which causes exit_aio and is_hugepage_only_range to fail.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1