CVE-2008-0009 (GCVE-0-2008-0009)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-02-12 20:00
Modified
2024-08-07 07:32
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
The vmsplice_to_user function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 through 2.6.24 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which might allow local users to access arbitrary kernel memory locations.
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