CVE-1999-1406

Summary

CVE-1999-1406 is a vulnerability affecting Red Hat Linux 5.1. The issue lies with the "dumpreg" utility, which opens the /dev/mem file with read-write (O_RDWR) access. This creates an opportunity for local users to perform a denial-of-service attack by redirecting standard output (fd 1) to the kernel, leading to a system crash.

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