CVE-2002-1914: Dump Project Dump

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dump 0.4 b10 through b29 allows local users to cause a denial of service (execution prevention) by using flock() to lock the /etc/dumpdates file.

Affected products

• Dump Project Dump: version 0.4 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.