CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3527
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c in the Virtual Dynamic Shared Objects (vDSO) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21 does not properly check boundaries, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the install_special_mapping, syscall, and syscall32_nopage functions.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.20.21)
• linux linux kernel 2.2.27
• linux linux kernel 2.4.36
• linux linux kernel 2.4.36.1
• linux linux kernel 2.4.36.2
• linux linux kernel 2.4.36.3
• linux linux kernel 2.4.36.4
• linux linux kernel 2.4.36.5
• linux linux kernel 2.4.36.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.18
• linux linux kernel 2.6.19.4
• linux linux kernel 2.6.19.5
• linux linux kernel 2.6.19.6
• linux linux kernel 2.6.19.7
• linux linux kernel 2.6.20.16
• linux linux kernel 2.6.20.17
• linux linux kernel 2.6.20.18
• linux linux kernel 2.6.20.19
• linux linux kernel 2.6.20.20
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d91d531900bfa1165d445390b3b13a8013f98f7 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32485 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32759 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33180 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687 www.debian.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21 www.kernel.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021137 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460251 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10602 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d91d531900bfa1165d445390b3b13a8013f98f7 git.kernel.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32485 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32759 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33180 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687 www.debian.org
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21 www.kernel.org
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html www.redhat.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021137 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460251 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10602 oval.cisecurity.org