CVE
- Id
- 1265
- CVE No.
- CVE-1999-1285
- Status
- Candidate
- Description
- Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until the read has completed.
- Phase
- Proposed (20010912)
- Votes
- ACCEPT(2) Cole, Frech | NOOP(2) Foat, Wall
- Comments