CVE-1999-1285

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until the read has completed.

Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until the read has completed.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 26 years ago

1998-12-27 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-12-19 02:29:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

19981227 [patch] fix for urandom read(2) not interruptible

linux-random-read-dos(1472)

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