CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-3831

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2008-10-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

The i915 driver in (1) drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.24 on Debian GNU/Linux and (2) sys/dev/pci/drm/i915_drv.c in OpenBSD does not restrict the DRM_I915_HWS_ADDR ioctl to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) master, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted ioctl call, related to absence of the DRM_MASTER and DRM_ROOT_ONLY flags in the ioctl's configuration.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.24

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-782 Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control weakness

References