Vulnerabilites related to redhat - tmpwatch
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2000-11-14 05:00
Modified
2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
The tmpwatch utility in Red Hat Linux forks a new process for each directory level, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating deeply nested directories in /tmp or /var/tmp/.
References
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CVE-2000-0829 (GCVE-0-2000-0829)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2001-05-07 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 05:28
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
The tmpwatch utility in Red Hat Linux forks a new process for each directory level, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating deeply nested directories in /tmp or /var/tmp/.
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