CVE-1999-1406

N/A

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published7/29/1998

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

redhat:linux

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526185&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526192&w=2(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/372(cve@mitre.org)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526185&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526192&w=2(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/372(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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