CVE-2008-3527 Information

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.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7d91d531900bfa1165d445390b3b13a8013f98f7 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32485 http://secunia.com/advisories/32759 http://secunia.com/advisories/33180 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1687 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0957.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021137 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460251 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10602