CVE-2008-2148

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-04-08
Bugzilla:
455275: CVE-2008-2148 kernel: fix permission checking in sys_utimensat

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The utimensat system call (sys_utimensat) in Linux kernel 2.6.22 and other versions before 2.6.25.3 does not check file permissions when certain UTIME_NOW and UTIME_OMIT combinations are used, which allows local users to modify file times of arbitrary files, possibly leading to a denial of service.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2148 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server (kernel-rt) RHSA-2008:0585 2008-08-26

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