CVE-2005-0529: Undefined Security Weakness

Linux kernel 2.6.10 and 2.6.11rc1-bk6 uses different size types for offset arguments to the procfileread and locksreadproc functions, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow when a signed comparison causes negative integers to be used in a positive context...

ISS X-Force response

This vulnerability was originally detected auditing the Apache 2.0 source tree. Apache 2.0 uses the same function to determine the chunk size, and has the same vulnerable signed comparison. It is, however, not vulnerable by luck? due to a signed comparison deep within the buffered reading routine...