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CVE-2008-3527

Published: Nov 5, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10602

vdb-entry

signature

x_refsource_OVAL

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7d91d531900bfa1165d445390b3b13a8013f98f7

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460251

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_DEBIAN

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

SUSE-SR:2008:025

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

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