CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3534
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
The shmem_delete_inode function in mm/shmem.c in the tmpfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain sequence of file create, remove, and overwrite operations, as demonstrated by the insserv program, related to allocation of "useless pages" and improper maintenance of the i_blocks count.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.26.1)
• debian debian linux 4.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 7.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=14fcc23fdc78e9d32372553ccf21758a9bd56fa1 git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/26/71 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31881 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32190 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32393 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1636 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.1 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31134 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44489 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=14fcc23fdc78e9d32372553ccf21758a9bd56fa1 git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/26/71 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31881 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32190 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32393 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1636 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.1 Broken Link
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31134 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44489 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry