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MEDIUM

security flaw

Published Apr 5, 2002

Description

Vulnerability in the MIT-SHM extension of the X server on Linux (XFree86) 4.2.1 and earlier allows local users to read and write arbitrary shared memory, possibly to cause a denial of service or gain privileges.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (15)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Apr 5, 2002
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Apr 2, 2002
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date May 2, 2002