CVE-1999-1406

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.

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

1998-07-29 04:00:00

Last updated 8 years ago

2016-10-18 02:04:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux 5.1

5.1

References

19980729 Crash a redhat 5.1 linux box

19980730 FD's 0..2 and suid/sgid procs (Was: Crash a redhat 5.1 linux box)

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