CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1285

2.1 LOW Published 1998-12-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-12-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until the read has completed.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.1.132)

References