CVE-2008-3832

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2008-10-02
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
464883: CVE-2008-3832 kernel: null pointer dereference in utrace_control

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

A certain Fedora patch for the utrace subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.5-28 on Fedora 8, and before 2.6.26.5-45 on Fedora 9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash or hang) via a call to the utrace_control function.

Find out more about CVE-2008-3832 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of utrace as shipped with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 kernel.

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