4.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-1615

Published: 08/05/2008 Updated: 29/09/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 436
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, when running on AMD64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain ptrace calls.

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Vendor Advisories

Dirk Nehring discovered that the IPsec protocol stack did not correctly handle fragmented ESP packets A remote attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service (CVE-2007-6282) ...
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-6712 Johannes Bauer discovered an integer overflow condition in the hrtimer subsystem on 64-bit systems This can be exploited by local users to ...

References

CWE-399https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431430http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0237.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1588https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00357.htmlhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0275.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29086http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020047http://secunia.com/advisories/30252http://secunia.com/advisories/30294http://secunia.com/advisories/30368http://secunia.com/advisories/30818http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1http://secunia.com/advisories/30890http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00002.htmlhttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:167http://secunia.com/advisories/31107http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:174http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00000.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30962http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/31628http://secunia.com/advisories/30112http://secunia.com/advisories/30982https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42278https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9563https://usn.ubuntu.com/625-1/https://nvd.nist.gov