CVE-2008-5702

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-12-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer underflow in the ibwdt_ioctl function in drivers/watchdog/ib700wdt.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc1 might allow local users to have an unknown impact via a certain /dev/watchdog WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT IOCTL call.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.28; 2.2.27, 2.4.36, 2.4.36.1, 2.4.36.2, 2.4.36.3, 2.4.36.4 (+90)

References

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11399
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7c2500f17d65092d93345f3996cf82ebca17e9ff
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/5/173
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/10/2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/20
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/6
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/9
http://secunia.com/advisories/33556
http://secunia.com/advisories/33706
http://secunia.com/advisories/33756

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