CVE-2004-1016

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2004-12-08
Bugzilla:
1617350: CVE-2004-1016 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The scm_send function in the scm layer for Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.28, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via crafted auxiliary messages that are passed to the sendmsg function, which causes a deadlock condition.

Find out more about CVE-2004-1016 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (kernel) RHSA-2004:689 2004-12-23
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2005:016 2005-01-21
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 RHSA-2005:017 2005-01-21

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