CVE-2009-1914

The pciregisteriommuregion function in arch/sparc/kernel/pcicommon.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 on the sparc64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service system crash by reading the /proc/iomem file, related to uninitialized pointers and the requestresource function...

CVE-2009-1914

CVE-2009-1914 affects the Linux kernel on sparc64. The function pci_register_iommu_region in arch/sparc/kernel/pci_common.c in versions prior to 2.6.29 can be abused by a local user to crash the system (denial of service) by reading /proc/iomem, due to uninitialized pointers in the context of the...