4.9 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
8.1%
The pci_register_iommu_region function in arch/sparc/kernel/pci_common.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 request_resource function.