CVE-2003-0175 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting SGI IRIX operating systems prior to version 6.5.21. A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic by making a specific call to the PIOCSWATCH ioctl. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant media coverage, though it has garnered some community discussion on GitHub.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5.2fCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5.2f:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.5.2mCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:sgi:irix:6.5.2m:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.