CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-0403

7.2 HIGH Published 2005-09-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-09-01
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

init_dev in tty_io.c in the Red Hat backport of NPTL to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly clear controlling tty's in multi-threaded applications, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain tty access via unknown attack vectors that trigger an access of a pointer to a freed structure.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 3.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 3.0

References