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CVE-2008-2365

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, allo

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Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. Public exploit on Exploit-DB

    EDB-31965, EDB-31966

  2. CVE published
  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 19

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git.kernel.org

securitytracker.com

sources.redhat.com

securityfocus.com

openwall.com

securityreason.com

oval.cisecurity.org

secunia.com

bugzilla.redhat.com

ubuntu.com

rhn.redhat.com

marc.info

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