Resource management errors in Linux kernel - CVE-2005-3108
Published: September 30, 2005 / Updated: October 11, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU99922
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2005-3108
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform service disruption.
mm/ioremap.c in Linux 2.6 on 64-bit x86 systems allows local users to cause a denial of service or an information leak via an ioremap on a certain memory map that causes the iounmap to perform a lookup of a page that does not exist.
How to mitigate CVE-2005-3108
Install update from vendor's repository.
Sources
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17141
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17364
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18056
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922
- http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=93ef70a217637ade3f335303a112b22a134a1ec2
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-808.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15049
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-199-1
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11322