Public exploit available
Public proof-of-concept or exploit code exists (ExploitDB / Metasploit / Nuclei).

CVE-2008-2365 — Race Condition in Kernel

CWE-362 — Race ConditionCWE-415 — Double Free11 documents6 sources
Severity
4.9MEDIUMNVD
NVD4.7
EPSS
0.7%
top 27.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
PoC available
Public exploit / PoC exists
Affected products
4
Fedoraproject Fedora CoreLinux KernelRedhat Enterprise Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 30
Latest updateMay 1

Description

Race condition in the ptrace and utrace support in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 through 2.6.25, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops) via a long series of PTRACE_ATTACH ptrace calls to another user's process that trigger a conflict between utrace_detach and report_quiescent, related to "late ptrace_may_attach() check" and "race around &dead_engine_ops setting," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0771 and CVE-2008-1514. NOTE: this issu…

CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:CExploitability: 3.4 | Impact: 6.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDlinux/linux_kernel122 versions+121

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 4.0, 5.0

Patches

Patch: rhn.redhat.com ↗Patch: www.openwall.com ↗Patch: rhn.redhat.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-hqv4-9647-qxr5: Double free vulnerability in the utrace support in the Linux kernel, probably 2↗2022-05-01
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GHSA
GHSA-rv47-5vwq-v454: Race condition in the ptrace and utrace support in the Linux kernel 2↗2022-05-01
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💥Exploits & PoCs

3
Exploit-DB
GalleryPal FE 1.5 - Authentication Bypass↗2009-12-15
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Exploit-DB
Linux Kernel 2.6.9 < 2.6.25 (RHEL 4) - utrace and ptrace Local Denial of Service (1)↗2008-06-25
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Exploit-DB
Linux Kernel 2.6.9 < 2.6.25 (RHEL 4) - utrace and ptrace Local Denial of Service (2)↗2008-06-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Linux kernel vulnerabilities↗2008-07-15
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Red Hat
kernel: ptrace: Crash on PTRACE_{ATTACH,DETACH} race↗2008-04-02
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Red Hat
crash - mmput()/unmap_vmas() - gdb testsuite↗2006-09-18
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-2365 kernel: ptrace: Crash on PTRACE_{ATTACH,DETACH} race↗2008-06-02
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