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CVE-2008-7256 PUBLISHED CVSS 1.2000000476837158 LOW

mm/shmem.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc8, when strict overcommit is enabled and CONFIG_SECURITY is disabled, does not properly handle the export of shmemfs objects by knfsd, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and knfsd crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2010-1643.

EPSS 0.08% · 22.5th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS v2.0
1.2000000476837158
EPSS Score
0.08%
22.5th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
linuxlinux_kernel2.6.28, 0, 2.6.0
n/an/an/a

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