CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1406

2.1 LOW Published 1998-07-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1998-07-29
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

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.

Affected configurations

• redhat linux 5.1

References