CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0961

7.2 HIGH 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])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Integer overflow in the do_brk function for the brk system call in Linux kernel 2.4.22 and earlier allows local users to gain root privileges.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.4.22)

References