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kernel: denial of service
| Package(s): | kernel |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2009-1914
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| Created: | July 2, 2009 |
Updated: | July 29, 2009 |
| Description: |
The Linux kernel has a denial of service vulnerability.
From the National Vulnerability Database
entry:
"The pci_register_iommu_region function in arch/sparc/kernel/pci_common.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 on the sparc64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by reading the /proc/iomem file, related to uninitialized pointers and the request_resource function." |
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