CVE-2008-3831

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-10-17
Bugzilla:
464502: CVE-2008-3831 kernel: i915 kernel drm driver arbitrary ioremap

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The i915 driver in (1) drivers/char/drm/i915_dma.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.24 on Debian GNU/Linux and (2) sys/dev/pci/drm/i915_drv.c in OpenBSD does not restrict the DRM_I915_HWS_ADDR ioctl to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) master, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted ioctl call, related to absence of the DRM_MASTER and DRM_ROOT_ONLY flags in the ioctl's configuration.

Find out more about CVE-2008-3831 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-2009:0009 2009-01-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2008:1017 2008-12-16

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