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CVE-2004-2660

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2004-12-31 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in direct-io.c in Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via certain O_DIRECT (direct IO) write requests.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References