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CVE-1999-1442

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 1998-06-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Bug in AMD K6 processor on Linux 2.0.x and 2.1.x kernels allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a particular sequence of instructions, possibly related to accessing addresses outside of segments.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: from 2.0.0 through 2.0.39; from 2.1.0 through 2.1.132

References

• http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9805.3/0855.html
• http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/Year-1998/1998-25/0816.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105
• http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9805.3/0855.html
• http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/Year-1998/1998-25/0816.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105

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