CVE-2009-0605

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the do_page_fault function in arch/x86/mm/fault.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that trigger page faults on a machine that has a registered Kprobes probe.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33758

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.5

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9be260a646bf76fa418ee519afa10196b3164681

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3