CVE-2003-0464: Red Hat Linux

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

The RPC code in Linux kernel 2.4 sets the reuse flag when sockets are created, which could allow local users to bind to UDP ports that are used by privileged services such as nfsd.

Affected products

• Red Hat Linux: version 7.1 only; version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

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