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CVE-2008-3832

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2008-10-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

A certain Fedora patch for the utrace subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.5-28 on Fedora 8, and before 2.6.26.5-45 on Fedora 9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash or hang) via a call to the utrace_control function.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux KernelRedhat Fedora

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References