CVE-2008-3527
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-11-05 14:51
Modified
2024-08-07 09:45
Severity ?
Summary
arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c in the Virtual Dynamic Shared Objects (vDSO) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21 does not properly check boundaries, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the install_special_mapping, syscall, and syscall32_nopage functions.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d91d531900bfa1165d445390b3b13a8013f98f7
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/32485Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/32759Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/33180Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021137
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460251
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10602
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d91d531900bfa1165d445390b3b13a8013f98f7
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/32485Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/32759Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/33180Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021137
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460251
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10602
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