cve/2009/CVE-2009-1914.md

### [CVE-2009-1914](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1914)
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### Description

The pci_register_iommu_region function in arch/sparc/kernel/pci_common.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.29 on the sparc64 platform allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by reading the /proc/iomem file, related to uninitialized pointers and the request_resource function.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-793-1

#### Github
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