CVE-2002-1914

MEDIUM 5.5CVE-2002-1914 · Published 31/12/2002 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2002-1914 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability affecting dump (dump project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.33%, higher than 26.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dump dump_project	`= 0.4`	No fix yet

dump 0.4 b10 through b29 allows local users to cause a denial of service (execution prevention) by using flock() to lock the /etc/dumpdates file.

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