Published: 05/11/2008 Updated: 13/02/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.6 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 410

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c in the Virtual Dynamic Shared Objects (vDSO) implementation in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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linux linux kernel 2.6

Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fixvarious bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedH ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or privilege escalation The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2008-3527 Tavis Ormandy reported a local DoS and potential privilege escalation in the Virtual Dynamic Shared Objects (vDSO) ...

CWE-264 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460251 http://secunia.com/advisories/32485 http://secunia.com/advisories/32759 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687 http://secunia.com/advisories/33180 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021137 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10602 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d91d531900bfa1165d445390b3b13a8013f98f7 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0957 https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/./dsa-1687

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