CVE-2009-1914

Publication date 4 June 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

The pci_register_iommu_region function in arch/sparc/kernel/pci_common.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 on the sparc64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by reading the /proc/iomem file, related to uninitialized pointers and the request_resource function.

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
linux	9.04 jaunty	Fixed 2.6.28-13.45
	8.10 intrepid	Fixed 2.6.27-14.35
	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 2.6.24-24.55
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release
linux-source-2.6.15	9.04 jaunty	Not in release
	8.10 intrepid	Not in release
	8.04 LTS hardy	Not in release
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
linux	Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=192d7a4667c6d11d1a174ec4cad9a3c5d5f9043c

CVE-2009-1914

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