CVE-2014-3426 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

NCSA Mosaic 2.1 through 2.7b5 allows local users to cause a denial of service ("remote control" outage) by creating a /tmp/Mosaic.pid file for every possible PID.

Published: 2014-05-08

Score: 2.1 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:illinois:ncsa_mosaic:2.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:illinois:ncsa_mosaic:2.7:-::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:illinois:ncsa_mosaic:2.7:b5::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2014-3439	NCSA Mosaic 2.1 through 2.7b5 allows local users to cause a denial of service ("remote control" outage) by creating a /tmp/Mosaic.pid file for every possible PID.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00053.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-05/msg00057.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/07/7

History

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Subscriptions

Illinois Ncsa Mosaic

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-05-08T10:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T10:43:06.073Z

Reserved: 2014-05-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-3426

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-05-08T10:55:05.777

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-3426

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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