CVE-2004-1057 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2004-1057?

CVE-2004-1057 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 29 Jan 2005. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple drivers in Linux kernel 2.4.19 and earlier do not properly mark memory with the VM_IO flag, which causes incorrect reference counts and may lead to a denial of service (kernel panic) when accessing freed kernel pages.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1057?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2004-1057?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2004-1057 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-1057 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-gw46-hc5v-7grj.