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CVE-1999-1406

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 1998-07-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.

Affected products

• RedHat Linux: 5.1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526185&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526192&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/372
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526185&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526192&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/372

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