CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5701
4.7 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-12-22
- 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-189
Description
Array index error in arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc8 on 64-bit MIPS platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an o32 syscall with a small syscall number, which leads to an attempted read operation outside the bounds of the syscall table.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.28)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.28
• debian debian linux 4.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e807f9574e37a3f202e677feaaad1b7c5d2c0db8 git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/09/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33078 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34981 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35011 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc8 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32716 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47190 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e807f9574e37a3f202e677feaaad1b7c5d2c0db8 git.kernel.org
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/09/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33078 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34981 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35011 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc8 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32716 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47190 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry