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CVE-2005-0916

17
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.6.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
50.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-911 · Apr 4, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0072 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

groups-beta.google.com / group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/13b43bd5783842f6/7ce3c5a514a497ab
linux.bkbits.net / linux-2.6/cset%404248c8c0es30_4YVdwa6vteKi7h_nw
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2005_50_kernel.html
securityfocus.com / bid/12987