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Tracker / CVE-2002-1380

CVE-2002-1380

Low 2.1

Linux kernel 2.2.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by using the mmap() function with a PROT_READ parameter to access non-readable memory pages through the /proc/pid/mem interface.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel

Analysis

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