CVE-2005-1369

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 2, 2005
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: May 2, 2005

Description

The (1) it87 and (2) via686a drivers in I2C for Linux 2.6.x before 2.6.11.8, and 2.6.12 before 2.6.12-rc2, create the sysfs "alarms" file with write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by attempting to write to the file, which does not have an associated store function.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.8
FLSA:157459-3vendor-advisory
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/159

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