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CVE-1999-1406 (GCVE-0-1999-1406)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2001-09-12 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-01 17:11
VLAI
Summary
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
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526192&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526185&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
1998-07-29 00:00
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