CVE-2005-0916

Published: May 2, 2005Modified: Apr 16, 2026

2.1

Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 2.9

Source: NVD

Description

AIO in the Linux kernel 2.6.11 on the PPC64 or IA64 architectures with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE enabled allows local users to cause a denial of service (system panic) via a process that executes the io_queue_init function but exits without running io_queue_release, which causes exit_aio and is_hugepage_only_range to fail.

Affected (1)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 2.6.11

References (8)

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/13b43bd5783842f6/7ce3c5a514a497ab?q=io_queue_init&rnum=3#7ce3c5a514a497ab

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404248c8c0es30_4YVdwa6vteKi7h_nw

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_50_kernel.html

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12987

Source: secalert@redhat.com

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/13b43bd5783842f6/7ce3c5a514a497ab?q=io_queue_init&rnum=3#7ce3c5a514a497ab

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404248c8c0es30_4YVdwa6vteKi7h_nw

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_50_kernel.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12987

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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