CVE-2008-2365

CVE Details

Release Date:

2008-06-30

Description

Race condition in the ptrace and utrace support in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 through 2.6.25, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops) via a long series of PTRACE_ATTACH ptrace calls to another user's process that trigger a conflict between utrace_detach and report_quiescent, related to late ptrace_may_attach() check and race around dead_engine_ops setting, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0771 and CVE-2008-1514. NOTE: this issue might only affect kernel versions before 2.6.16.x.

See more information about CVE-2008-2365 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	4.7	Base Metrics:	AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector:	Local network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (kernel)	ELSA-2008-0508	2008-06-26
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (ocfs2-2.6.9-67.0.20.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2008-0508	2008-06-26
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (oracleasm-2.6.9-67.0.20.0.1.EL)	ELSA-2008-0508	2008-06-26

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