Unscored CVE-2014-3425 EUVD-2014-3438GHSA-g5xw-rv47-vpjc

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 f…

Published May 8, 2014 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

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.

References

[oss-security] 20140507 Re: CVE Request - Predictable temporary filenames in GNU Emacs mailing-list
[emacs-diffs] 20140506 emacs-24 r117068: browse-url.el comment mailing-list