CVE-2008-3911 — Vulnetix

CVE-2008-3911 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.199999809265137 HIGH

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.

EPSS 0.05% · 15.0th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 2.0

7.199999809265137

EPSS Score

0.05%

15.0th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
linux	linux_kernel	2.6.26.3
n/a	n/a	n/a

Exploit Intelligence

[oss-security] 20080904 CVE request: kernel: sunrpc: fix possible overrun on read of /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports (circl)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=27df6f25ff218072e0e879a96beeb398a79cdbc8 (circl)
[linux-kernel] 20080830 Re: buffer overflow in /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports (circl)
31937 (circl)
SUSE-SA:2008:053 (circl)
linux-kernel-procdoxprt-bo(45136) (circl)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/30/140 (vulncheck-nvd)

Timeline

Sep 4, 2008 CVE Published
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