CVE-2009-0605

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-02-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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 products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.28.4; 2.2.27, 2.4.36, 2.4.36.1, 2.4.36.2, 2.4.36.3, 2.4.36.4 (+303)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9be260a646bf76fa418ee519afa10196b3164681
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33758
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=9be260a646bf76fa418ee519afa10196b3164681
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.28.5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33758
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1

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