Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's binfmt Functionality

CVE-2004-1074 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The binfmt functionality in the Linux kernel, when "memory overcommit" is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) via a malformed a.out binary.

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