Published: 15/10/2008 Updated: 07/11/2023

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

VMScore: 409

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

The do_splice_from function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel prior to 2.6.27 does not reject file descriptors that have the O_APPEND flag set, which allows local users to bypass append mode and make arbitrary changes to other locations in the file.

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Synopsis Important: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues and several bugsare now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 10This update has been rated as having important security impact by the RedHat Secur ...

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 ...

It was discovered that the Xen hypervisor block driver did not correctly validate requests A user with root privileges in a guest OS could make a malicious IO request with a large number of blocks that would crash the host OS, leading to a denial of service This only affected Ubuntu 710 (CVE-2007-5498) ...

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 NVD-CWE-noinfo http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/14/5 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/13/1 http://secunia.com/advisories/32386 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00689.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-October/msg00693.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:224 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-679-1 http://secunia.com/advisories/32918 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-1017.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33182 http://secunia.com/advisories/33180 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1681 http://secunia.com/advisories/32998 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0009.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33586 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466707 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31903 http://secunia.com/advisories/35390 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45954 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11142 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=efc968d450e013049a662d22727cf132618dcb2f https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009:0009 https://usn.ubuntu.com/679-1/

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