Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.11.8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/159
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.