CVE-2003-1040

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2003-12-04
Bugzilla:
1617124: CVE-2003-1040 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

kmod in the Linux kernel does not set its uid, suid, gid, or sgid to 0, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending certain signals to kmod.

Find out more about CVE-2003-1040 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2004:106 2004-04-22
Red Hat Linux 9 RHSA-2004:065 2004-02-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2004:069 2004-02-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 RHSA-2004:188 2004-05-12

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