CVE-2004-1074

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The binfmt functionality in the Linux kernel, when "memory overcommit" is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) via a malformed a.out binary.

Published 2005-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.