Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 29, 1998· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-1999-1406
CVE-1999-1406
Description
dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.
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