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glibc: local DoS vulnerability

Package(s):glibc CVE #(s):CAN-2003-0859
Created:November 14, 2003 Updated:November 18, 2003
Description: 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 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0859 to this issue.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2003-002 2003-11-14
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