CVE-2005-0916 — 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

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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

Published Mar 29, 2005

2.1

LOW

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.72%

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.72% 0.00724

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.00724

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 2, 2026	0.72% (0.00724)	52.37th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.72% (0.00724)	49.03th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.15% (0.00146)	32.49th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	11.52th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 12, 2024	0.04% (0.00043)	9.60th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.04% (0.00043)	7.57th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.76% (0.01761)	76.53th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 23, 2023	1.76% (0.01761)	76.48th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.76% (0.01761)	74.44th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.76% (0.01761)	53.69th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/13b43bd5783842f6/7ce3c5a514a497ab?q=io_queue_init&rnum=3#7ce3c5a514a497ab
x_refsource_MISC
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404248c8c0es30_4YVdwa6vteKi7h_nw
x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_50_kernel.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12987
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/13b43bd5783842f6/7ce3c5a514a497ab?q=io_queue_init&rnum=3#7ce3c5a514a497ab		x_refsource_MISC
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%404248c8c0es30_4YVdwa6vteKi7h_nw		x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_50_kernel.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12987		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner redhat

Published Mar 29, 2005

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Mar 29, 2005

Link CVE-2005-0916

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2005-0916

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2005-0916