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CVE-2008-2148

LOW CVSS: 3.6 Published: 2008-05-12 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The utimensat system call (sys_utimensat) in Linux kernel 2.6.22 and other versions before 2.6.25.3 does not check file permissions when certain UTIME_NOW and UTIME_OMIT combinations are used, which allows local users to modify file times of arbitrary files, possibly leading to a denial of service.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References