CVE-2008-1294 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-1294 at MITRE

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.17, and other versions before 2.6.22, does not check when a user attempts to set RLIMIT_CPU to 0 until after the change is made, which allows local users to bypass intended resource limits.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently not rated by SUSE as it is not affecting the SUSE Enterprise products.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	2.1
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 370198 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2009:017, published Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:15:32 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:25:28 2023