Vulnerability CVE-2008-3832
Published: 2008-10-03   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.9/10
6.9/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Redhat -> Fedora 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464883
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45644
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31536
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/1
http://kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=56705
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