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).
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EUVD-2003-0456 | 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). |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-08T01:58:09.649Z
Reserved: 2003-06-26T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2003-0462

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2003-08-27T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2003-0462


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