CVE-2008-3527 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-3527
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Description: arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c in the Virtual Dynamic Shared Objects (vDSO) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21 does not properly check boundaries, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the install_special_mapping, syscall, and syscall32_nopage functions.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html ST 1021137 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32485 Secunia Advisory: SA32759 Secunia Advisory: SA33180 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687 CONFIRM http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7d91d531900bfa1165d445390b3b13a8013f98f7

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