CVE-2008-1615

Publication date 8 May 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, when running on AMD64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain ptrace calls.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

Jan Kratochvil discovered that PTRACE did not correctly handle certain calls when running under 64bit kernels. A local attacker could exploit this to crash the system, leading to a denial of service.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
linux	8.04 LTS hardy	Fixed 2.6.24-19.36
	7.10 gutsy	Not in release
	7.04 feisty	Not in release
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release
linux-source-2.6.15	8.04 LTS hardy	Not in release
	7.10 gutsy	Not in release
	7.04 feisty	Not in release
	6.06 LTS dapper	Fixed 2.6.15-52.69
linux-source-2.6.20	8.04 LTS hardy	Not in release
	7.10 gutsy	Not in release
	7.04 feisty	Fixed 2.6.20-17.37
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release
linux-source-2.6.22	8.04 LTS hardy	Not in release
	7.10 gutsy	Fixed 2.6.22-15.56
	7.04 feisty	Not in release
	6.06 LTS dapper	Not in release

Notes

kees

reproducer mentioned in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431430 this is _only_ the CS corruption, so we can ignore the upstream fix

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
linux	Diff: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=120219781932243
linux-source-2.6.22	Vendor: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/kernel/dists/etch-security/linux-2.6/debian/patches/bugfix/amd64-cs-corruption.patch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

CVE-2008-1615

From the Ubuntu Security Team

Status

Notes

kees

Patch details

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