CVE-2003-0986

Published Dec 31, 2003

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description
Various routines for the ppc64 architecture on Linux kernel 2.6 prior to 2.6.2 and 2.4 prior to 2.4.24 do not use the copy_from_user function when copying data from userspace to kernelspace, which crosses security boundaries and allows local users to cause a denial of service.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
1.7
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
3.1
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
NVD-CWE-Other

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