CVE-2003-0986

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2003-12-15
Bugzilla:
1617116: CVE-2003-0986 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2003-0986 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RHSA-2004:017 2004-01-16

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