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CVE-2005-0916

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2005-05-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

AIO in the Linux kernel 2.6.11 on the PPC64 or IA64 architectures with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE enabled allows local users to cause a denial of service (system panic) via a process that executes the io_queue_init function but exits without running io_queue_release, which causes exit_aio and is_hugepage_only_range to fail.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

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