CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1963

2.1 LOW Published 2002-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-12-31
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 kernel 2.4.1 through 2.4.19 sets root's NR_RESERVED_FILES limit to 10 files, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by opening 10 setuid binaries.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.4.1 • linux linux kernel 2.4.2 • linux linux kernel 2.4.3 • linux linux kernel 2.4.4 • linux linux kernel 2.4.5 • linux linux kernel 2.4.6 • linux linux kernel 2.4.7 • linux linux kernel 2.4.8 • linux linux kernel 2.4.9 • linux linux kernel 2.4.10 • linux linux kernel 2.4.11 • linux linux kernel 2.4.12 • linux linux kernel 2.4.13 • linux linux kernel 2.4.14 • linux linux kernel 2.4.15 • linux linux kernel 2.4.16 • linux linux kernel 2.4.17 • linux linux kernel 2.4.18 • linux linux kernel 2.4.19

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