CVE-1999-1406

Published: 1998-07-29

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.

Severity

Overall Severity: N/A

CVSS Metrics

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Affected Products

redhat - linux

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References

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