CVE-2005-0916 describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability in the Linux kernel versions 2.6.11, specifically impacting PPC64 and IA64 architectures with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE enabled. An attacker can trigger a system panic by executing the io_queue_init function and then exiting without calling io_queue_release. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of system availability loss. While not actively exploited in the wild, an ExploitDB entry exists, but there is no evidence of Metasploit or Nuclei modules, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.6.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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