Fedora Core 1 : glibc-2.3.2-101.1 (2003-002)

Herbert Xu reported that various applications can accept spoofed messages sent on the kernel netlink interface by other users on the local machine. This could lead to a local denial of service attack. The glibc function getifaddrs uses netlink and could therefore be vulnerable to this issue. The...

CVE-2003-0859

The getifaddrs function in GNU libc glibc 2.2.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending spoofed messages as other users to the kernel netlink interface...

CVE-2003-0859

CVE-2003-0859 : Affected GNU libc (glibc) 2.2.4 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service by sending spoofed messages to the kernel netlink interface via getifaddrs. Public advisories (Red Hat RHSA-2003:334/325, Fedora, OpenBSD/OpenPKG, SUSE, Slackware, etc.) describe the issue ...