CVE-2003-0859

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

The getifaddrs function in GNU libc (glibc) 2.2.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending spoofed messages as other users to the kernel netlink interface.

The getifaddrs function in GNU libc (glibc) 2.2.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending spoofed messages as other users to the kernel netlink interface.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 21 years ago

2003-12-15 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

GNU glibc 2.3.2

2.3.2

GNU Zebra 0.91a

0.91a

GNU Zebra 0.92a

0.92a

GNU Zebra 0.93a

0.93a

GNU Zebra 0.93b

0.93b

SGI ProPack 2.2.1

2.2.1

SGI ProPack 2.3

2.3

Intel IA64

References

RHSA-2003:325

Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2003:334

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11337

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