CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2617

3.6 LOW Published 2005-08-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-08-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

The syscall32_setup_pages function in syscall32.c for Linux kernel 2.6.12 and later, on the 64-bit x86 platform, does not check the return value of the insert_vm_struct function, which allows local users to trigger a memory leak via a 32-bit application with crafted ELF headers.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.12

References