National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-0163
Original release date:02/12/2008
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Linux kernel 2.6, when using vservers, allows local users to access resources of other vservers via a symlink attack in /proc.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (02/14/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1494
Type: Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: linux-kernel-proc-unauth-access(40486)
External Source: BID
Name: 27798
External Source: BID
Name: 27704
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28875