CVE-2004-0138 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the ELF loader of Linux kernel versions 2.4 prior to 2.4.25. A local attacker can crash the system by providing a specially crafted ELF file with an invalid interpreter architecture, leading to an invalid VMA unmap. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, with the primary impact being system availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV entry. Despite its age, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion, with 10 mentions, primarily on GitHub.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.