National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3832
Original release date:10/03/2008
Last revised:10/11/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
A certain Fedora patch for the utrace subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.5-28 on Fedora 8, and before 2.6.26.5-45 on Fedora 9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash or hang) via a call to the utrace_control function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (01/01/1900)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of utrace as shipped with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464883
External Source: XF
Name: fedora-utracecontrol-dos(45644)
External Source: BID
Name: 31536
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081002 CVE-2008-3832 kernel: null pointer dereference in utrace_control
External Source: MISC
Name: http://kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=56705
