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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

Published Sep 12, 2001

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.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (4)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 12, 2001
Updated Aug 1, 2024
Reserved Aug 31, 2001
Link CVE-1999-1406
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-1999-1406
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-1999-1406
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 12, 2001
Updated Aug 1, 2024
Exploited since n/a
Link EUVD-1999-1387
EUVD-1999-1387