kernel: race condition [LWN.net]

Package(s):

kernel

CVE #(s):

CVE-2008-1669

Created:

May 7, 2008

Updated:

August 13, 2008

Description:

The kernel's filesystem locking code suffers from a race condition which could possibly allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability has been fixed in the 2.6.25.2, 2.6.24.7, and 2.4.36.4 kernel updates.

Alerts:

Mandriva	MDVSA-2008:167	2008-08-12
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2008:035	2008-07-21
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2008:038	2008-07-29
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2008:032	2008-07-07
SuSE	SUSE-SA:2008:030	2008-06-20
Ubuntu	USN-618-1	2008-06-19
Ubuntu	USN-614-1	2008-06-03
Mandriva	MDVSA-2008:105	2007-05-21
Mandriva	MDVSA-2008:104	2008-05-20
Fedora	FEDORA-2008-4043	2008-05-17
Fedora	FEDORA-2008-3949	2008-05-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2008-3873	2008-05-14
Debian	DSA-1575-1	2008-05-12
CentOS	CESA-2008:0237	2008-05-09
CentOS	CESA-2008:0233	2008-05-09
rPath	rPSA-2008-0162-1	2008-05-07
CentOS	CESA-2008:0211	2008-05-07
Red Hat	RHSA-2008:0233-01	2008-05-07
Red Hat	RHSA-2008:0237-01	2008-05-07
Red Hat	RHSA-2008:0211-01	2008-05-07

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