CVE-2008-2365 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2008-2365

Race condition in the ptrace and utrace support in the...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

linux kernel, enterprise linux, enterprise linux desktop
Vulnerable Versions:
2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.6.11.4, 2.6.11.5, 2.6.11.6, 2.6.11.7, 2.6.11.8, 2.6.11.11, 2.6.11.12, 2.6.12, 2.6.12.1, 2.6.12.2, 2.6.12.3, 2.6.12.4, 2.6.12.5, 2.6.12.6, 2.6.12.12, 2.6.12.22, 2.6.13, 2.6.13.1, 2.6.13.2, 2.6.13.3, 2.6.13.4, 2.6.14, 2.6.14.1, 2.6.14.2, 2.6.14.3, 2.6.14.4, 2.6.14.5, 2.6.15, 2.6.15.1, 2.6.15.2, 2.6.15.3, 2.6.15.4, 2.6.15.11, 2.6.16, 2.6.16.1, 2.6.16.7, 2.6.16.9, 2.6.16.11, 2.6.16.12, 2.6.16.13, 2.6.16.19, 2.6.16.23, 2.6.16.27, 2.6.17, 2.6.17.1, 2.6.17.2, 2.6.17.3, 2.6.17.5, 2.6.17.6, 2.6.17.7, 2.6.17.8, 2.6.17.10, 2.6.17.11, 2.6.17.12, 2.6.17.13, 2.6.17.14, 2.6.18, 2.6.18.1, 2.6.18.3, 2.6.18.4, 2.6.19, 2.6.19.1, 2.6.19.2, 2.6.20, 2.6.20.1, 2.6.20.2, 2.6.20.3, 2.6.20.4, 2.6.20.5, 2.6.20.8, 2.6.20.9, 2.6.20.11, 2.6.20.13, 2.6.20.15, 2.6.21, 2.6.21.1, 2.6.21.2, 2.6.21.4, 2.6.21.6, 2.6.21.7, 2.6.22, 2.6.22.1, 2.6.22.3, 2.6.22.4, 2.6.22.5, 2.6.22.6, 2.6.22.7, 2.6.22.8, 2.6.22.11, 2.6.22.12, 2.6.22.13, 2.6.22.14, 2.6.22.15, 2.6.22.16, 2.6.22.17, 2.6.23, 2.6.23.1, 2.6.23.2, 2.6.23.3, 2.6.23.4, 2.6.23.5, 2.6.23.6, 2.6.23.7, 2.6.23.9, 2.6.23.10, 2.6.23.14, 2.6.23_rc1, 2.6.24, 2.6.24.1, 2.6.24.2, 2.6.24.6, 2.6.24_rc4, 2.6.24_rc5, 2.6.25, 2.6.25.1, 2.6.25.2, 2.6.25.3, 2.6.25.4, 2.6.25.5, 4.0

Timeline

Official Publish: June 30th, 2008
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.