CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1166

Published: Jul 11, 1999 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Linux 2.0.37 does not properly encode the Custom segment limit, which allows local users to gain root privileges by accessing and modifying kernel memory.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.0.37 (including) 2.0.37 (including)

References