What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-3272

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 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: 2008-08-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info function in sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c in the sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27-rc2 does not verify that the device number is within the range defined by max_synthdev before returning certain data to the caller, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04
• Debian Linux: 4.0
• Linux kernel: before 2.6.27; 2.6.27, 2.6.27-rc1 — fixed in 2.6.27
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 4.7
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 2.6.27. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=82e68f7ffec3800425f2391c8c86277606860442
• http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.27-rc2
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0972.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31366
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31551
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31614
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31836

Get alerted when CVE-2008-3272 or the next vulnerability affects your stack