CVE-2008-2365

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…

published June 30, 2008

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00526 · 43.5th percentile
Published
2008-06-30T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 JUN 21:00Z
    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…
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