VDB
CVE-2008-2365
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% · 72.5th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 2.0
4.699999809265137
EPSS Score
0.71%
72.5th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | 2.6.21.4, 2.6.9, 2.6.10 |
| redhat | enterprise_linux_desktop | 4.0 |
| redhat | enterprise_linux | 4.0, 4.0, 4.0 |
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
Exploit Intelligence
- CIRCL confirmed: CVE-2008-2365 (circl-sighting)
- CIRCL confirmed: CVE-2008-2365 (circl-sighting)
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10749 (circl)
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f358166a9405e4f1d8e50d8f415c26d95505b6de (circl)
- 29945 (circl)
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5ecfbae093f0c37311e89b29bfc0c9d586eace87 (circl)
- [oss-security] 20080714 Re: CVE-2008-2365 kernel: ptrace: Crash on PTRACE_{ATTACH,DETACH} race -- affecting kernel versions <= 2.6.25 (circl)
- 3965 (circl)
- linux-kernel-ptraceattach-dos(43567) (circl)
- 30850 (circl)
…and 9 more exploits
Timeline
- Jun 25, 2008 PoC Published
- Jun 30, 2008 CVE Published
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 29, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 20, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 12, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Dec 18, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 9, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
- Apr 3, 2023 EPSS Score
- May 25, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- linux-kernel-ptraceattach-dos(43567) vdb
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f5b40e363ad6041a96e3da32281d8faa191597b9 url
- 1020362 vdb
- http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/tests/late-ptrace-may-attach-check.c?cvsroot=systemtap url
- 29945 vdb
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5ecfbae093f0c37311e89b29bfc0c9d586eace87 url
- [oss-security] 20080714 Re: CVE-2008-2365 kernel: ptrace: Crash on PTRACE_{ATTACH,DETACH} race -- affecting kernel versions <= 2.6.25 mailing-list
- 3965 third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10749 vdb
- 30850 third-party-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359 url
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f358166a9405e4f1d8e50d8f415c26d95505b6de url
- 31107 third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20080626 CVE-2008-2365 kernel: ptrace: Crash on PTRACE_{ATTACH,DETACH} race -- affecting kernel versions <= 2.6.25 mailing-list
- USN-625-1 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2008:0508 vendor-advisory
- [linux-kernel] 20070508 Re: [PATCH -utrace] Move utrace into task_struct mailing-list
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2365 advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git;a=commit;h=5ecfbae093f0c37311e89b29bfc0c9d586eace87 url
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git;a=commit;h=f358166a9405e4f1d8e50d8f415c26d95505b6de url
…and 1 more