CVE-2008-5701

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 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: 2008-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Array index error in arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc8 on 64-bit MIPS platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an o32 syscall with a small syscall number, which leads to an attempted read operation outside the bounds of the syscall table.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 4.0
Linux kernel: through 2.6.28; 2.6.28-rc1, 2.6.28-rc2, 2.6.28-rc3, 2.6.28-rc4, 2.6.28-rc5, 2.6.28-rc6 (+1)

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e807f9574e37a3f202e677feaaad1b7c5d2c0db8
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/09/1
http://secunia.com/advisories/33078
http://secunia.com/advisories/34981
http://secunia.com/advisories/35011
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32716
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47190
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e807f9574e37a3f202e677feaaad1b7c5d2c0db8
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/09/1

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