Security Advisory

CVE-2008-0009

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-02-12 20:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 07:32:23

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

Description

The vmsplice_to_user 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 might allow local users to access arbitrary kernel memory locations.

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