Security Advisory

CVE-1999-1406

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2001-09-12 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-01 17:11:03

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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