Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux 2.1.132 and Earlier

CVE-1999-1285 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until the read has completed.

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