CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-1285

Published: Dec 27, 1998 | Modified: Dec 19, 2017

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

2.1 LOW

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-1285
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until the read has completed.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Linux_kernel	Linux	*	2.1.132 (including)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq\u0026m=91495921611500\u0026w=2
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/1472

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