Description
Race condition in the ptrace and utrace support in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 through 2.6.25, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops) via a long series of PTRACE_ATTACH ptrace calls to another user's process that trigger a conflict between utrace_detach and report_quiescent, related to "late ptrace_may_attach() check" and "race around &dead_engine_ops setting," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0771 and CVE-2008-1514. NOTE: this issue might only affect kernel versions before 2.6.16.x.
Published: 2008-06-30
Score: 4.7 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-2361 Race condition in the ptrace and utrace support in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 through 2.6.25, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops) via a long series of PTRACE_ATTACH ptrace calls to another user's process that trigger a conflict between utrace_detach and report_quiescent, related to "late ptrace_may_attach() check" and "race around &dead_engine_ops setting," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0771 and CVE-2008-1514. NOTE: this issue might only affect kernel versions before 2.6.16.x.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-625-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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Linux Linux Kernel
Redhat Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Desktop
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:58:02.270Z

Reserved: 2008-05-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-2365

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-06-30T21:41:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-2365

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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2008-04-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-2365 - Bugzilla

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