CVE-2008-1514 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-1514 at MITRE

Description

arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and other versions before 2.6.27-rc6, on s390 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via the user-area-padding test from the ptrace testsuite in 31-bit mode, which triggers an invalid dereference.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.9
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

Note from the SUSE Security Team on the kernel-default package

SUSE will no longer fix all CVEs in the Linux Kernel anymore, but declare some bug classes as won't fix. Please refer to TID 21496 for more details.

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 411871 [VERIFIED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:051, published Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:32:12 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Mar 17 16:14:48 2025