CVE-2005-0403

CVE-2005-0403 affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 via the Red Hat backport of NPTL. The vulnerable code is in init_dev of tty_io.c , where controlling ttys are not properly cleared in multi‑threaded applications, enabling a local user to crash the system and potentially gain access to ttys through...

CVE-2005-0403

initdev in ttyio.c in the Red Hat backport of NPTL to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 does not properly clear controlling tty's in multi-threaded applications, which allows local users to cause a denial of service crash and possibly gain tty access via unknown attack vectors that trigger an access of ...