CVE-2008-0600 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-0600 at MITRE

Description

The vmsplice_to_pipe function in Linux kernel 2.6.17 through 2.6.24.1 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which allows local users to gain root privileges via crafted arguments in a vmsplice system call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0009 and CVE-2008-0010.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.2
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 358006 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:007, published Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2008:013, published Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2008:030, published Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 02:46:20 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:24:46 2023