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CVSSv2

CVE-2000-0829

Published: 14/11/2000 Updated: 10/10/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 215
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

The tmpwatch utility in Red Hat Linux forks a new process for each directory level, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating deeply nested directories in /tmp or /var/tmp/.

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redhat linux 6.1

redhat tmpwatch 2.2

redhat tmpwatch 2.5.1

Exploits

Exploit DB: RedHat Linux 6.1 i386 - Tmpwatch Recursive Write Denial of Service
source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/1664/info Any user with write access to /tmp or /var/tmp, can induce tmpwatch to cause Red Hat (and others runnng tmpwatch from cron) to stop responding, and possibly require a hard reboot This is accomplished by creating a directory tree many (ie ~6000) nodes deep in /tmp For each level of the directory ...

References

NVD-CWE-Otherhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1664http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/81364http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-080.htmlhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5217https://nvd.nist.govhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20217/
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