Arbitrary Process Termination Vulnerability in iBCS Routines

CVE-2002-0429 · LOW Severity

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

The iBCS routines in arch/i386/kernel/traps.c for Linux kernels 2.4.18 and earlier on x86 systems allow local users to kill arbitrary processes via a a binary compatibility interface (lcall).

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