Privilege Escalation via ioperm System Call in Linux Kernel 2.4.20 and Earlier

CVE-2003-0246 · LOW Severity

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

The ioperm system call in Linux kernel 2.4.20 and earlier does not properly restrict privileges, which allows local users to gain read or write access to certain I/O ports.

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