Denial of Service Vulnerability in kmod in Linux Kernel

CVE-2003-1040 · LOW Severity

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

kmod in the Linux kernel does not set its uid, suid, gid, or sgid to 0, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending certain signals to kmod.

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