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CVE-2008-5701

Published: Dec 22, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Array index error in arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc8 on 64-bit MIPS platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an o32 syscall with a small syscall number, which leads to an attempted read operation outside the bounds of the syscall table.

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

References

[oss-security] 20081209 CVE request: kernel: MIPS: Fix potential DOS by untrusted user app

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linux-kernel-mips-dos(47190)

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc8

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e807f9574e37a3f202e677feaaad1b7c5d2c0db8

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third-party-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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vdb-entry

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