CVE-2009-0605

Published Feb 17, 2009

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description
Stack consumption vulnerability in the do_page_fault function in arch/x86/mm/fault.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that trigger page faults on a machine that has a registered Kprobes probe.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
4.9
Impact score
6.9
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-119

Vendor comments

  • Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5, or Red Hat Enterprise MRG.

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