CVE-2005-2100

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

The rw_vm function in usercopy.c in the 4GB split patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not perform proper bounds checking, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

The rw_vm function in usercopy.c in the 4GB split patch for the Linux kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 does not perform proper bounds checking, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

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 19 years ago

2005-10-25 17:06:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Desktop 4.0

4.0

References

17073

RHSA-2005:514

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=165547

Patch

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11556

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