CVE-2008-0010 (GCVE-0-2008-0010)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-02-12 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:32
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The copy_from_user_mmap_sem function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 through 2.6.24 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which allow local users to read from arbitrary kernel memory locations.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
13 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1494 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27796 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/28875 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
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| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0487… | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487982/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0026-vmsplice… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/28896 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/28835 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5093 | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB |
| https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27704 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
Date Public
2008-02-08 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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