CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2001-0907

Published: Oct 18, 2001 | Modified: Sep 20, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Linux kernel 2.2.1 through 2.2.19, and 2.4.1 through 2.4.10, allows local users to cause a denial of service via a series of deeply nested symlinks, which causes the kernel to spend extra time when trying to access the link.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.2.1 2.2.19
Linux_kernel Linux 2.4.1 2.4.10

References