CVE-2008-2365
MEDIUM 4.7EPSS 0.5%
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.
- CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 4.7 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C - EPSS
- 0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 43rd percentile
- Published
- 2008-06-30
- Updated
- 2024-08-07
ExploitDB entries (2)
Security advisories
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30850
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31107
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0508.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/26/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29945
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1