CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-2148

3.6 LOW Published 2008-05-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-05-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The utimensat system call (sys_utimensat) in Linux kernel 2.6.22 and other versions before 2.6.25.3 does not check file permissions when certain UTIME_NOW and UTIME_OMIT combinations are used, which allows local users to modify file times of arbitrary files, possibly leading to a denial of service.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.22 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.2 • 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 2.6.22.8 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.9 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.10 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.11 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.12 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.13 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.14 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.15 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.16 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.17 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.18 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.19 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.20 • linux linux kernel 2.6.22.21

Related

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References