CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0859

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2003-12-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-12-15
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The getifaddrs function in GNU libc (glibc) 2.2.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending spoofed messages as other users to the kernel netlink interface.

Affected configurations

• gnu glibc 2.3.2 • gnu zebra 0.91a • gnu zebra 0.92a • gnu zebra 0.93a • gnu zebra 0.93b • quagga quagga routing software suite 0.96.2 • sgi propack 2.2.1 • sgi propack 2.3 • redhat enterprise linux 2.1 • redhat enterprise linux 3.0 • redhat linux advanced workstation 2.1 • intel ia64

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