CVE-2009-0605

Stack consumption vulnerability in the dopagefault 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...

CVE-2009-0605

CVE-2009-0605 is a Linux kernel vulnerability affecting the do_page_fault path in arch/x86/mm/fault.c, present in 2.6.x up to 2.6.28.5. A local user with a registered Kprobes probe can trigger page faults to cause memory exhaustion, enabling denial of service and potentially privilege gain. The f...