CVE-1999-1406 Information

Description

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.

Reference

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526185&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526192&w=2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/372