CVE-2003-0462: Linux Kernel

Low severity, CVSS 1.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A race condition in the way env_start and env_end pointers are initialized in the execve system call and used in fs/proc/base.c on Linux 2.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.4.0 only; version 2.4.1 only; version 2.4.2 only; version 2.4.3 only; version 2.4.4 only; version 2.4.5 only; …
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: version 8.2 only; version 9.0 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: version 2.1 only
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Multi Network Firewall: version 8.2 only

Published 2003-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.