CVE-2008-1615

Summary

CVECVE-2008-1615
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-05-08 00:20:00 UTC
Updated2017-09-29 01:30:00 UTC
DescriptionLinux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, when running on AMD64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain ptrace calls.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-399

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Hardware Amd Amd64 All All All All
Hardware Amd Amd64 All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux as_4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux es_4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux ws_4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux as_4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux es_4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux ws_4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat update for kernel - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:20 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:20 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Linux Kernel AMD64 PTrace Bug Lets Local Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
SUSE update for kernel - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Red Hat update for kernel - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Debian update for linux-2.6 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Red Hat update for kernel - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1588-1 linux-2.6 DEBIAN www.debian.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:20 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
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USN-625-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com
Ubuntu update for kernel - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
Support REDHAT www.redhat.com
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org
[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:20 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: kernel-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 FEDORA www.redhat.com
SUSE update for kernel - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:174 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
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[security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Linux kernel (SUSE-SA:20 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2008:167 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com
SUSE update for kernel - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Bug 431430 – CVE-2008-1615 kernel: ptrace: Unprivileged crash on x86_64 %cs corruption MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
Linux Kernel x86_64 ptrace Denial Of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
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