CVE-2014-3425

medium

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.

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/07/7

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2014-05/msg00057.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-05-08

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00053