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CVE-2005-1369

Published: May 2, 2005

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.8

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vendor-advisory

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http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/159

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