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CVE-2003-0986

Low
1.7/10

Summary

Various routines for the ppc64 architecture on Linux kernel 2.6 prior to 2.6.2 and 2.4 prior to 2.4.24 do not use the copy_from_user function when copying data from userspace to kernelspace, which crosses security boundaries and allows local users to cause a denial of service.

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

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published