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CVE-2003-0959

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple integer overflows in the 32bit emulation for AMD64 architectures in Linux 2.4 kernel before 2.4.21 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or gain root privileges via unspecified vectors that trigger copy_from_user function calls with improper length arguments.

References

• http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset%403ed382f7UfJ9Q2LKCJq1Tc5B7-EC5A
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43072
• http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset%403ed382f7UfJ9Q2LKCJq1Tc5B7-EC5A
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43072

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