CVE-2008-3911
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 4, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 4, 2008
Description
The proc_do_xprt function in net/sunrpc/sysctl.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.3 does not check the length of a certain buffer obtained from userspace, which allows local users to overflow a stack-based buffer and have unspecified other impact via a crafted read system call for the /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports file.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- [oss-security] 20080904 CVE request: kernel: sunrpc: fix possible overrun on read of /proc/sys/sunrpc/transportsmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=27df6f25ff218072e0e879a96beeb398a79cdbc8
- [linux-kernel] 20080830 Re: buffer overflow in /proc/sys/sunrpc/transportsmailing-list
- 31937vdb-entry
- SUSE-SA:2008:053vendor-advisory
- linux-kernel-procdoxprt-bo(45136)vdb-entry
- [linux-kernel] 20080830 buffer overflow in /proc/sys/sunrpc/transportsmailing-list
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