Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until the read has completed.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-01T17:11:01.463Z
Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00
Link: CVE-1999-1285
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 1998-12-27T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2017-12-19T02:29:07.190
Link: CVE-1999-1285
Redhat
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