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CVE-2008-3911

Published: Sep 4, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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Description

The proc_do_xprt function in net/sunrpc/sysctl.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.26.3 does not check the length of a certain buffer obtained from userspace, which allows local users to overflow a stack-based buffer and have unspecified other impact via a crafted read system call for the /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports file.

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

References

[oss-security] 20080904 CVE request: kernel: sunrpc: fix possible overrun on read of /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=27df6f25ff218072e0e879a96beeb398a79cdbc8

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[linux-kernel] 20080830 Re: buffer overflow in /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports

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vdb-entry

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SUSE-SA:2008:053

vendor-advisory

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linux-kernel-procdoxprt-bo(45136)

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[linux-kernel] 20080830 buffer overflow in /proc/sys/sunrpc/transports

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