CVE-2008-1514

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-03-18
Bugzilla:
438147: CVE-2008-1514 kernel: ptrace: Padding area write - unprivileged kernel crash

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and other versions before 2.6.27-rc6, on s390 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via the user-area-padding test from the ptrace testsuite in 31-bit mode, which triggers an invalid dereference.

Find out more about CVE-2008-1514 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 5, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.

It was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 via: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0972.html

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2008:0972 2008-11-19

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