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CVE-2008-2365 PUBLISHED CVSS 4.699999809265137 MEDIUM

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.

EPSS 0.71% · 72.0th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS v2.0
4.699999809265137
EPSS Score
0.71%
72.0th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
linuxlinux_kernel2.6.22.8, 2.6.9, 2.6.10
redhatenterprise_linux_desktop4.0
redhatenterprise_linux4.0, 4.0, 4.0
n/an/an/a

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