CVE-2003-1288 describes multiple race conditions in Linux-VServer 1.22 running on Linux kernel 2.4.23 with Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) enabled. These race conditions, affecting data structures like s_info and ip_info and various kernel functions, can allow local users to trigger a denial of service by causing a kernel oops. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It requires local access (AV:L) and has low attack complexity (AC:L), leading to a potential denial of service (A:P) without impacting confidentiality or integrity. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV catalog entry for this vulnerability. Despite its age, it has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:vserver:linux-vserver:1.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.