CVE-2008-3832

medium

Description

A certain Fedora patch for the utrace subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.5-28 on Fedora 8, and before 2.6.26.5-45 on Fedora 9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash or hang) via a call to the utrace_control function.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45644

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464883

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31536

http://kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=56705

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-10-03

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00113