CVE-2005-0916: Linux Kernel

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.11 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.