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CVE-2003-0462

Date: July 24, 2003

A race condition in the way env_start and env_end pointers are initialized in the execve system call and used in fs/proc/base.c on Linux 2.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

Severity Score

2.9

Related Resources (9)

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A309

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2003-0462

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-238.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-239.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0462

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-198.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-423

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-358

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2003-0462

Severity Score

2.9

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	2.9
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	1.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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