CVE-2008-1669

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 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-94

Description

Linux kernel before 2.6.25.2 does not apply a certain protection mechanism for fcntl functionality, which allows local users to (1) execute code in parallel or (2) exploit a race condition to obtain "re-ordered access to the descriptor table."

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.0-test1, 2.6.0-test10, 2.6.0-test11, 2.6.0-test2, 2.6.0-test3 (+298)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.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://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000023.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30077
http://secunia.com/advisories/30101
http://secunia.com/advisories/30108
http://secunia.com/advisories/30110
http://secunia.com/advisories/30112
http://secunia.com/advisories/30116
http://secunia.com/advisories/30164

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