PT-2008-6326

CVE-2008-5182

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Published

2008-11-21

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Updated

2018-10-11

Description by

CVSS 2.0
6.9
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.28-rc5
Description The issue is related to the inotify functionality in the Linux kernel, which might allow local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors related to race conditions in inotify watch removal and umount.
Recommendations For Linux kernel versions prior to 2.6.28-rc5, update to version 2.6.28-rc5 or later to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (\'Race Condition\')
Related identifiers
CVE-2008-5182
DSA-1681-1
DSA-1687-1
RHSA-2009:0021
RHSA-2009:0053
RHSA-2009:0225
RHSA-2009_0225
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