CVE-2003-0462: Race Condition

First published: Fri Jul 25 2003(Updated: )

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).

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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