CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
The (1) it87 and (2) via686a drivers in I2C for Linux 2.6.x before
2.6.11.8, and 2.6.12 before 2.6.12-rc2, create the sysfs “alarms” file with
write permissions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service
(CPU consumption) by attempting to write to the file, which does not have
an associated store function.