Denial of Service Vulnerability in tmpwatch Utility in Red Hat Linux

CVE-2000-0829 · LOW Severity

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

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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