CVEvulnerability
CVE-2003-0461
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2003-08-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
/proc/tty/driver/serial in Linux 2.4.x reveals the exact number of characters used in serial links, which could allow local users to obtain potentially sensitive information such as the length of passwords.
Affected configurations
• redhat linux 7.1
• redhat linux 7.2
• redhat linux 7.3
• redhat linux 8.0
• redhat linux 9.0
References
- http://rsbac.dyndns.org/pipermail/rsbac/2002-May/000162.html rsbac.dyndns.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-358 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-423 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-238.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-188.html www.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A304 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9330 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A997 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://rsbac.dyndns.org/pipermail/rsbac/2002-May/000162.html rsbac.dyndns.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-358 www.debian.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-423 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-238.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-188.html www.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A304 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9330 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A997 oval.cisecurity.org