{"document":{"aggregate_severity":{"namespace":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/","text":"low"},"category":"csaf_vex","csaf_version":"2.0","distribution":{"text":"Copyright 2024 SUSE LLC. All rights reserved.","tlp":{"label":"WHITE","url":"https://www.first.org/tlp/"}},"lang":"en","notes":[{"category":"summary","text":"SUSE CVE-2004-0427","title":"Title"},{"category":"description","text":"The do_fork function in Linux 2.4.x before 2.4.26, and 2.6.x before 2.6.6, does not properly decrement the mm_count counter when an error occurs after the mm_struct for a child process has been activated, which triggers a memory leak that allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via the clone (CLONE_VM) system call.","title":"Description of the CVE"},{"category":"legal_disclaimer","text":"CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).","title":"Terms of use"}],"publisher":{"category":"vendor","contact_details":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/contact/","name":"SUSE Product Security Team","namespace":"https://www.suse.com/"},"references":[{"category":"external","summary":"CVE-2004-0427","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2004-0427"},{"category":"external","summary":"SUSE Security Ratings","url":"https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/"},{"category":"external","summary":"Advisory link for SuSE-SA:2004:010","url":"https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/ZGHTCYKJQZHPN6I3QQCHBCQOAOGXCVM6/#ZGHTCYKJQZHPN6I3QQCHBCQOAOGXCVM6"}],"title":"SUSE CVE CVE-2004-0427","tracking":{"current_release_date":"2025-07-03T00:36:47Z","generator":{"date":"2025-07-03T00:36:47Z","engine":{"name":"cve-database.git:bin/generate-csaf-vex.pl","version":"1"}},"id":"CVE-2004-0427","initial_release_date":"2025-07-03T00:36:47Z","revision_history":[{"date":"2025-07-03T00:36:47Z","number":"2","summary":"Current version"}],"status":"interim","version":"2"}}}