CVE-2001-0859: Red Hat Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

2.4.3-12 kernel in Red Hat Linux 7.1 Korean installation program sets the setting default umask for init to 000, which installs files with world-writeable permissions.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 7.1 only

Published 2001-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.