CVE-2001-0635: Red Hat Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Red Hat Linux 7.1 sets insecure permissions on swap files created during installation, which can allow a local attacker to gain additional privileges by reading sensitive information from the swap file, such as passwords.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 7.1 only

Published 2001-08-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.