CVE-2008-2358

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Patch information can be found at the following location: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00172.html

Integer overflow in the dccp_feat_change function in net/dccp/feat.c in the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) subsystem in the Linux kernel 2.6.18, and 2.6.17 through 2.6.20, allows local users to gain privileges via an invalid feature length, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Patch information can be found at the following location: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00172.html

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Linux Kernel

First reported 16 years ago

2008-06-10 00:32:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-29 01:31:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.17

2.6.17

Linux Kernel 2.6.18

2.6.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.19

2.6.19

Linux Kernel 2.6.20

2.6.20

References

SUSE-SA:2008:030

30000

Vendor Advisory

30818

Vendor Advisory

30849

Vendor Advisory

30920

Vendor Advisory

31107

Vendor Advisory

DSA-1592

MDVSA-2008:112

MDVSA-2008:167

RHSA-2008:0519

29603

1020211

USN-625-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447389

linux-kernel-dccpfeatchange-bo(43034)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9644

FEDORA-2008-5893

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