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CVE-2003-0462 (GCVE-0-2003-0462)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-07-25 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 01:58
VLAI
Summary
A race condition in the way env_start and env_end pointers are initialized in the execve system call and used in fs/proc/base.c on Linux 2.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-423 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-358 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2003-07-21 00:00
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