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Tracker / CVE-2001-0907

CVE-2001-0907

Low 2.1

Linux kernel 2.2.1 through 2.2.19, and 2.4.1 through 2.4.10, allows local users to cause a denial of service via a series of deeply nested symlinks, which causes the kernel to spend extra time when trying to access the link.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 2.2.1 → 2.2.19
linux linux_kernel · 2.4.1 → 2.4.10

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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