CVE-1999-1285 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-1999-1285?

CVE-1999-1285 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 12 Sep 2001. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Linux 2.1.132 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) by reading a large buffer from a random device (e.g. /dev/urandom), which cannot be interrupted until the read has completed.

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1285?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-1999-1285?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1285 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-1999-1285 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1285 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-qwqh-r8x8-wh6j.