CVE-1999-1406

Low CVSS 2.1

Published 1998-07-29 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1406, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

dumpreg in Red Hat Linux 5.1 opens /dev/mem with O_RDWR access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by redirecting fd 1 (stdout) to the kernel.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1406

CVSS vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P