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).
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2003-0456 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).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:58:09.649Z

Reserved: 2003-06-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2003-0462

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2003-08-27T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2003-0462

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2003-08-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2003-0462 - Bugzilla

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