CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-1040

2.1 LOW Published 2004-04-15 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-04-15
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

kmod in the Linux kernel does not set its uid, suid, gid, or sgid to 0, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending certain signals to kmod.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.4.0

References