CVE-2002-1963

First published: Tue Dec 31 2002(Updated: )

Linux kernel 2.4.1 through 2.4.19 sets root's NR_RESERVED_FILES limit to 10 files, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by opening 10 setuid binaries.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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