CVE-2008-2365

Description

Race condition in the ptrace and utrace support in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 through 2.6.25, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops) via a long series of PTRACE_ATTACH ptrace calls to another user's process that trigger a conflict between utrace_detach and report_quiescent, related to "late ptrace_may_attach() check" and "race around &dead_engine_ops setting," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0771 and CVE-2008-1514. NOTE: this issue might only affect kernel versions before 2.6.16.x.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10749

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43567

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020362

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29945

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/14/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/26/1

http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/tests/late-ptrace-may-attach-check.c?cvsroot=systemtap

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3965

http://secunia.com/advisories/31107

http://secunia.com/advisories/30850

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0508.html

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117863520707703&w=2

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f5b40e363ad6041a96e3da32281d8faa191597b9

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f358166a9405e4f1d8e50d8f415c26d95505b6de

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5ecfbae093f0c37311e89b29bfc0c9d586eace87

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3