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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2005-0179

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SUSE Linux Security Vulnerability: CVE-2005-0179

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/07/2005
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) and bypass RLIM_MEMLOCK limits via the mlockall call.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-drbd
  • suse-upgrade-km_drbd

References

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