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CVE-1999-1406

Low
2.1/10

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published