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CVE-2009-0605

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2009-02-17 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Stack consumption vulnerability in the do_page_fault function in arch/x86/mm/fault.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via unspecified vectors that trigger page faults on a machine that has a registered Kprobes probe.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References