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CVE-2008-3832

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

A certain Fedora patch for the utrace subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.5-28 on Fedora 8, and before 2.6.26.5-45 on Fedora 9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash or hang) via a call to the utrace_control function.

Affected products

• RedHat Fedora: 8, 9

References

• http://kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=56705
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31536
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464883
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45644
• http://kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=56705
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/02/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31536
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464883
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45644

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