CVE-1999-1442

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Bug in AMD K6 processor on Linux 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a particular sequence of instructions, possibly related to accessing addresses outside of segments.

Bug in AMD K6 processor on Linux 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a particular sequence of instructions, possibly related to accessing addresses outside of segments.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 26 years ago

1998-06-22 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-09-11 18:41:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel

References

http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9805.3/0855.html

Broken Link, Third Party Advisory

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/Year-1998/1998-25/0816.html

Broken Link, Third Party Advisory

105

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

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