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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ws 4 (Operating System). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-399. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:
Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, when running on AMD64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain ptrace calls.
The bug was discovered 05/07/2008. The weakness was released 05/07/2008 as Bug 431430 as confirmed bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-1615 since 04/02/2008. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 32384 (Fedora 7 : kernel-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 (2008-4043)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165690 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update Linux Kernel (SUSE-SA:2008:032)).
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (42278) and Tenable (32384). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 3470, 3471, 3494 and 3692.
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CPE 2.3
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Nessus ID: 32384
Nessus Name: Fedora 7 : kernel-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 (2008-4043)
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OpenVAS ID: 61103
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1588-1 (linux-2.6)
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Sources
Vendor: redhat.comAdvisory: Bug 431430
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2008-1615 (🔍)
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X-Force: 42278
SecurityTracker: 1020047
Vulnerability Center: 18361 - Linux Kernel x86_64 Ptrace Vulnerability Allows Local Users to Cause a Denial of Service, Low
SecurityFocus: 29086 - Linux Kernel x86_64 ptrace Denial Of Service Vulnerability
Secunia: 30112
OSVDB: 44992 - CVE-2008-1615 - Linux - Kernel - Denial-Of-Service Issue
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Entry
Created: 03/16/2015 17:00Updated: 08/10/2019 09:42
Changes: 03/16/2015 17:00 (76), 08/10/2019 09:42 (11)
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