CVE-2014-3425: Illinois Ncsa Mosaic

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NCSA Mosaic 2.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service ("remote control" outage) by creating a /tmp/xmosaic.pid file for every possible PID.

Affected products

• Illinois Ncsa Mosaic: up to and including 2.0

Published 2014-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.