CVE-2003-0462 Information

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).

Reference

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-358 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-423 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-198.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-238.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-239.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A309