CVE-2003-0462 — LOW severity vulnerability (A race condition in the way env_start and env_end pointers a)
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).
| CVE ID | CVE-2003-0462 |
|---|---|
| Severity | LOW |
| CVSS score | 1.2 |
| CVSS vector | AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| CWE | NVD-CWE-Other |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2003-08-27 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| 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). |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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