CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0829

2.1 LOW Published 2000-11-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-11-14
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 tmpwatch utility in Red Hat Linux forks a new process for each directory level, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating deeply nested directories in /tmp or /var/tmp/.

Affected configurations

• redhat tmpwatch 2.2 • redhat tmpwatch 2.5.1 • redhat linux 6.1

References