CVE-2008-5702 Information

Description

Buffer underflow in the ibwdt_ioctl function in drivers/watchdog/ib700wdt.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 might allow local users to have an unknown impact via a certain /dev/watchdog WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT IOCTL call.

Reference

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11399 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git;a=commit;h=7c2500f17d65092d93345f3996cf82ebca17e9ff http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/5/173 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/10/2 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/20 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/6 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/9 http://secunia.com/advisories/33556 http://secunia.com/advisories/33706 http://secunia.com/advisories/33756 http://secunia.com/advisories/34981 http://secunia.com/advisories/35011 http://secunia.com/advisories/35390 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc1 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47667 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11344 https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/