Bug 1617364 (CVE-2004-1071) - CVE-2004-1071 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2004-1071 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2004-1071
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 03:28 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 03:29:06 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 03:28:59 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 18:00:36 UTC 
MITRE description:

The binfmt_elf loader (binfmt_elf.c) in Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.27, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.8, does not properly handle a failed call to the mmap function, which causes an incorrect mapped image and may allow local users to execute arbitrary code.
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