Published: 18/10/2001 Updated: 20/09/2018

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

Linux kernel 2.2.1 up to and including 2.2.19, and 2.4.1 up to and including 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.

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source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/3444/info A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in several versions of the Linux kernel The problem occurs when a user with local access creates a long chain of symbolically linked files When the kernel dereferences the symbolic links, the process scheduler is blocked, effecively locking the system un ...

NVD-CWE-Other http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2001/MDKSA-2001-082.php3 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2001_036_kernel_txt.html http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/IMNX-2001-70-035-01 ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2001-036.0.txt http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2001:079 http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/other_advisory-1650.html http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7312.php http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3444 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100350685431610&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100343090106914&w=2 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/21122/

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