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CVE-1999-1406

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 1998-07-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References