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CVE-2005-0403
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: 2005-09-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Description
init_dev in tty_io.c in the Red Hat backport of NPTL to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly clear controlling tty's in multi-threaded applications, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly gain tty access via unknown attack vectors that trigger an access of a pointer to a freed structure.
Affected products
References
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-293.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144059
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9435
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-293.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144059
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9435
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