CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0316

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-05-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-05-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Linux kernel 2.4 and 2.2 allows local users to read kernel memory and possibly gain privileges via a negative argument to the sysctl call.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.2.0 • linux linux kernel 2.4.0

References