Linux Kernel PPC64/IA64 (AIO) - Local Denial of Service

// // Proof of Concept by Daniel McNeil // compile using cc -o aiodioread aiodioread.c -laio // define XOPENSOURCE 600 define GNUSOURCE include include include include include include include include include include int pagesize; char iobuf; iocontextt myctx; int aiomaxio = 4; / do a AIO DIO writ...

CVE-2005-0916: Undefined Security Weakness

AIO in the Linux kernel 2.6.11 on the PPC64 or IA64 architectures with CONFIGHUGETLBPAGE enabled allows local users to cause a denial of service system panic via a process that executes the ioqueueinit function but exits without running ioqueuerelease, which causes exitaio and ishugepageonlyrange...