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CVE Reference: CVE-2003-0462
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CVE-2003-0462

Description:
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).

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-239.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-238.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-198.html

OVAL
  http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:309

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-358
  http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-423


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