Vulnerability in Red Hat Linux

CVE-1999-1406

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.

EPSS: 0.004 (30.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Redhat Linux — versions 5.1
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)