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CVE-2003-0462

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16

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).

Affected products

• Linux kernel: 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.4.5 (+16)
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: 8.2, 9.0
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: 2.1
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Multi Network Firewall: 8.2

References

• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-358
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-423
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-198.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-238.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-239.html
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A309
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-358
• http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-423
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-198.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-238.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-239.html
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A309

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