CVE-2005-0916

Linux Kernel 2.6.11 - Denial of Service via AIO Process Exit Without Release

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2005-0916. PoCs published by Daniel McNeil.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This PoC demonstrates a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the Linux kernel's AIO (Asynchronous I/O) implementation on PPC64 systems. It triggers a kernel panic by performing an AIO direct read operation, exploiting a bug in the handling of such operations.

Description

AIO in the Linux kernel 2.6.11 on the PPC64 or IA64 architectures with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE enabled allows local users to cause a denial of service (system panic) via a process that executes the io_queue_init function but exits without running io_queue_release, which causes exit_aio and is_hugepage_only_range to fail.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Daniel McNeil · cdoslinux
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/911

This PoC demonstrates a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the Linux kernel's AIO (Asynchronous I/O) implementation on PPC64 systems. It triggers a kernel panic by performing an AIO direct read operation, exploiting a bug in the handling of such operations.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Linux kernel (specific version not specified, but affects PPC64 systems)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Linux system with PPC64 architecture · libaio library installed · Compile with -laio flag
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (4)

Core 4

Scores

EPSS 0.0072
EPSS Percentile 49.2%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
linux/linux_kernel 2.6.11
Published May 02, 2005
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026