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Tracker / CVE-2003-0462

CVE-2003-0462

Low 1.2

A race condition in the way env_start and env_end pointers are initialized in the execve system call and used in fs/proc/base.c on Linux 2.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
mandrakesoft mandrake_linux
mandrakesoft mandrake_linux_corporate_server
mandrakesoft mandrake_multi_network_firewall

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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