VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2005-0403

CVSS score7.2 HIGH
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2005-09-01
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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