CVE-2003-0476 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2003-0476 at MITRE

Description

The execve system call in Linux 2.4.x records the file descriptor of the executable process in the file table of the calling process, which allows local users to gain read access to restricted file descriptors.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	None

No SUSE Bugzilla entries cross referenced.

SUSE Security Advisories:

SuSE-SA:2003:034, published Tue Aug 12 18:15:00 CEST 2003

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:23:26 2013
CVE page last modified: Wed Mar 26 11:13:53 2025