Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-0462

Title: Linux kernel execve race condition DoS

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2003-0462

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 27, 2003

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 1.2 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.27%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-0462: 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).

Impacted Vendors

mandrakesoft 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-358 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-423 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-198.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-238.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-239.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A309 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-358 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-423 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-198.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-238.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-239.html https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A309

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

1.2

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2003-0462 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/22840

View Code

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 27, 2003 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.