Security Advisory

CVE-2008-1294

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-05-02 16:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 08:17:34

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

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.

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