CVE-2005-0403

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

init_dev in tty_io.c in the Red Hat backport of NPTL to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly clear controlling tty's in multi-threaded applications, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain tty access via unknown attack vectors that trigger an access of a pointer to a freed structure.

init_dev in tty_io.c in the Red Hat backport of NPTL to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly clear controlling tty's in multi-threaded applications, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain tty access via unknown attack vectors that trigger an access of a pointer to a freed structure.

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 19 years ago

2005-09-01 22:03:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:29:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Desktop 3.0

3.0

References

RHSA-2005:293

Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144059

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9435

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