National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4307
Original release date:01/13/2009
Last revised:05/20/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Race condition in the do_setlk function in fs/nfs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors resulting in an interrupted RPC call that leads to a stray FL_POSIX lock, related to improper handling of a race between fcntl and close in the EINTR case.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456282
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-751-1
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0451
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1794
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1787
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35015
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 35011
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34981
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34962
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34917
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0473
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0459
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20090113 CVE-2008-4307 kernel: local denial of service in locks_remove_flock
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=c4d7c402b788b73dc24f1e54a57f89d3dc5eb7bc