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

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBRedHat Linux 6.1 i386 - Tmpwatch Recursive Write Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby zenith parsecNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

PoC details

References

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