RHSA-2000:080Vendor advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2000-080.html CVE-2000-0829
RedHat Linux 6.1 i386 - Tmpwatch Recursive Write Denial of Service
Record summary
CVE-2000-0829 has a selected CVSS score of 2.1; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
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/.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBRedHat Linux 6.1 i386 - Tmpwatch Recursive Write Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby zenith parsecNot analyzed1 file
References
520000909 tmpwatch: local DoS : fork()bomb as rootmailing list
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/81364 1664vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1664 linux-tmpwatch-fork-dos(5217)vdb entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5217 nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-0829