CVE-2014-3426 (GCVE-0-2014-3426)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-08 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:43
VLAI
Summary
NCSA Mosaic 2.1 through 2.7b5 allows local users to cause a denial of service ("remote control" outage) by creating a /tmp/Mosaic.pid file for every possible PID.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/07/7 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/201… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2014-05-06 00:00
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