CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0227

2.1 LOW Published 2000-03-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-03-23
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

The Linux 2.2.x kernel does not restrict the number of Unix domain sockets as defined by the wmem_max parameter, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by requesting a large number of sockets.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.2.12 • linux linux kernel 2.2.14 • linux linux kernel 2.3.99

References