Security Advisory

CVE-2002-1963

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2005-06-28 04:00:00

Last updated 2024-09-16 16:24:08

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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