Bug 1616516 (CVE-2000-0829) - CVE-2000-0829 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2000-0829 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2000-0829
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 01:03 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2021-11-12 20:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 01:03:38 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 01:03:32 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 17:03:42 UTC 
MITRE description:

The tmpwatch utility in Red Hat Linux forks a new process for each directory level, which allows local users to cause a denial of service by creating deeply nested directories in /tmp or /var/tmp/.
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