National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3832

Overview

A certain Fedora patch for the utrace subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.5-28 on Fedora 8, and before 2.6.26.5-45 on Fedora 9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash or hang) via a call to the utrace_control function.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (01/01/1900)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of utrace as shipped with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel.

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464883

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464883

External Source: XF

Name: fedora-utracecontrol-dos(45644)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/45644

External Source: BID

Name: 31536

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31536

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20081002 CVE-2008-3832 kernel: null pointer dereference in utrace_control

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/1

External Source: MISC

Name: http://kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=56705

Hyperlink:http://kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=56705