CVE-2008-3534 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2008-3534?

CVE-2008-3534 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 Aug 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The shmem_delete_inode function in mm/shmem.c in the tmpfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain sequence of file create, remove, and overwrite operations, as demonstrated by the insserv program, related to allocation of "useless pages" and improper maintenance of the i_blocks count.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-3534?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2008-3534?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2008-3534 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-3534 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g59v-xw9p-fc4r.