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CVE-2003-0986
Various routines for the ppc64 architecture on Linux kernel 2.6 prior to 2.6.2 and 2.4 prior to 2.4.24 do not use the copy_from_user…
- 1.7LowCVSS base score
- 0.35%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 71% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Various routines for the ppc64 architecture on Linux kernel 2.6 prior to 2.6.2 and 2.4 prior to 2.4.24 do not use the copy_from_user function when copying data from userspace to kernelspace, which crosses security boundaries and allows local users to cause a denial of service.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low1.7 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.35% · top 71% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 1.7.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- RHSA-2004:017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset%403ffcf122S7e3xPZCpibrXq6KRRjwqw (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/cset%403fdd54b3u9Eq0Wny2Nn1HGfI3pofOQ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9707 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2003-0976 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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