CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-0009

2.1 LOW Published 2008-02-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-02-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The vmsplice_to_user function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 through 2.6.24 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which might allow local users to access arbitrary kernel memory locations.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.22 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.16 • linux linux kernel 2.6.23 • linux linux kernel 2.6.23.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.23.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.23.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.23.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.23.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.23.6 • linux linux kernel 2.6.23.7 • linux linux kernel 2.6.23.9 • linux linux kernel 2.6.23.14 • linux linux kernel 2.6.24

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References