CVE-2008-3832

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 3, 2008
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Aug 27, 2008

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

31536vdb-entry
[oss-security] 20081002 CVE-2008-3832 kernel: null pointer dereference in utrace_controlmailing-list
fedora-utracecontrol-dos(45644)vdb-entry
http://kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=56705
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464883

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