CVE-2008-1615

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-05-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, when running on AMD64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain ptrace calls.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: as_4, es_4, ws_4
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 4

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30112
http://secunia.com/advisories/30252
http://secunia.com/advisories/30294
http://secunia.com/advisories/30368
http://secunia.com/advisories/30818
http://secunia.com/advisories/30890
http://secunia.com/advisories/30962

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