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CVE-2005-0977

Description

The shmem_nopage function in shmem.c for the tmpfs driver in Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly verify the address argument, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via an invalid address.

POC

Reference

- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-366.html

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