CVE-2008-2365

Race condition in the ptrace and utrace support in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 through 2.6.25, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops) via a long series of PTRACE_ATTACH ptrace calls to another user's process that trigger a conflict between utrace_detach and report_quiescent, related to "late ptrace_may_attach() check" and "race around &dead_engine_ops setting," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0771 and CVE-2008-1514. NOTE: this issue might only affect kernel versions before 2.6.16.x.

• CWE-362

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5ecfbae093f0c37311e89b29bfc0c9d586eace87
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f358166a9405e4f1d8e50d8f415c26d95505b6de
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f5b40e363ad6041a96e3da32281d8faa191597b9
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117863520707703&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0508.htmlPatch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30850Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31107Vendor Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3965
• http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/tests/late-ptrace-may-attach-check.c?cvsroot=systemtap
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/26/1Patch
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/14/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29945
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020362
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43567
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10749
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5ecfbae093f0c37311e89b29bfc0c9d586eace87
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f358166a9405e4f1d8e50d8f415c26d95505b6de
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f5b40e363ad6041a96e3da32281d8faa191597b9
• http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117863520707703&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0508.htmlPatch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30850Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31107Vendor Advisory
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3965
• http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/tests/late-ptrace-may-attach-check.c?cvsroot=systemtap
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/26/1Patch
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/14/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29945
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020362
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449359
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43567
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10749

Published

Jun 30, 2008

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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