A vulnerability has been identified in Linux Kernel, which could be exploited by local attackers to obtain elevated privileges. This issue is caused by an integer overflow error in the "arch/i386/mm/fault.c" script when processing user-supplied variables, which could be exploited by malicious users to execute arbitrary code with "root" privileges.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Paul Starzetz.
ChangeLog
2005-01-13 : Initial release
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