CVE-2003-0462

LowCVSS 1.2/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

A race condition in the way env_start and env_end pointers are initialized in the execve system call and used in fs/proc/base.c on Linux 2.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 1.2/10AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Aug 27, 2003
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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