Vulnerability CVE-2014-3425
Published: 2014-05-08

Description:
NCSA Mosaic 2.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service ("remote control" outage) by creating a /tmp/xmosaic.pid file for every possible PID.

Type:

CWE-noinfo

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
2.1/10
2.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Illinois -> Ncsa mosaic 

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