CVE-2008-3832 Information

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.

Reference

http://kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=56705 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31536 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464883 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45644