Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary Kernel Memory Access in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Kernel 4GB/4GB Split Patch

CVE-2005-0091

Unknown vulnerability in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 kernel 4GB/4GB split patch, when using the hugemem kernel, allows local users to read and write to arbitrary kernel memory and gain privileges via certain syscalls.

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