CVE-2005-1369
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.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2005-05-02
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
Affected products
References
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.8
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/159
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
