CVE-2004-2302

Severity

26%

Complexity

19%

Confidentiality

81%

Race condition in the sysfs_read_file and sysfs_write_file functions in Linux kernel before 2.6.10 allows local users to read kernel memory and cause a denial of service (crash) via large offsets in sysfs files.

Race condition in the sysfs_read_file and sysfs_write_file functions in Linux kernel before 2.6.10 allows local users to read kernel memory and cause a denial of service (crash) via large offsets in sysfs files.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2017-02-19 05:07:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.10

2.6.10

References

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc1/2.6.10-rc1-mm1/broken-out/fix-race-in-sysfs_read_file-and-sysfs_write_file.patch

Patch

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404186a4deVoR88JjTwMa3ZnIp-_YJsA

Patch

17826

18056

DSA-922

MDKSA-2005:218

MDKSA-2005:219

SUSE-SA:2005:044

Patch, Vendor Advisory

13091

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