Bug 1617594 (CVE-2005-0977) - CVE-2005-0977 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2005-0977 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2005-0977
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 04:07 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:53 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 04:07:43 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 04:07:36 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 16:16:22 UTC 
MITRE description:

The shmem_nopage function in shmem.c for the tmpfs driver in Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly verify the address argument, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via an invalid address.
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