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

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: Wed Sep 11 00:10:41 2024