dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2001-09-12T04:00:00
Updated: 2016-10-17T13:57:01
Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00
Link: CVE-1999-1406
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 1998-07-29T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2016-10-18T02:04:08.613
Link: CVE-1999-1406
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