CVE-2008-2365 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2008-2365?

CVE-2008-2365 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 Jun 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-2365?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop.

How do I fix CVE-2008-2365?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2008-2365 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-2365 exists.

Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rv47-5vwq-v454.