CVE-2000-0829

The affected software is the tmpwatch utility in Red Hat Linux. The vulnerability arises because it forks a new process for each directory level when scanning /tmp or /var/tmp , enabling a local attacker to create deeply nested directories and trigger a denial of service . Exploitation details ar...

CVE-2000-0829

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/...