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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.7 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-362
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (45th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2361)
- Published
- June 30, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2361 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
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References
- 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.html(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30850(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31107(Vendor 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/2008/06/26/1(Patch)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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