CVE-2008-1514

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and other versions before 2.6.27-rc6, on s390 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via the user-area-padding test from the ptrace testsuite in 31-bit mode, which triggers an invalid dereference.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.27; 2.6.2, 2.6.9, 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.6.11.1, 2.6.11.2 (+262)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=3d6e48f43340343d97839eadb1ab7b6a3ea98797
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.6
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.27-rc6
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00007.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0972.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/31826
http://secunia.com/advisories/32237
http://secunia.com/advisories/32315
http://secunia.com/advisories/32356
http://secunia.com/advisories/32799
http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/utrace/tests
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1653

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