Security Advisory

CVE-2008-0600

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-02-12 20:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 07:54:21

Assigner redhat

State PUBLISHED

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.

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