CVE-2005-1369 in Kernelinfo

Summary

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.

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Reservation

05/02/2005

Disclosure

05/02/2005

CPE

ready

CVSS

4.0

EPSS

0.00061

Activities

Very Low

Sources

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