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CVE-2008-3534

Date: August 8, 2008

The shmem_delete_inode function in mm/shmem.c in the tmpfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain sequence of file create, remove, and overwrite operations, as demonstrated by the insserv program, related to allocation of "useless pages" and improper maintenance of the i_blocks count.

Severity Score

Related Resources (14)

http://secunia.com/advisories/31881
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44489
http://secunia.com/advisories/32393
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0857.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26.1
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=14fcc23fdc78e9d32372553ccf21758a9bd56fa1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31134
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/26/71
http://secunia.com/advisories/32190
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3534
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-3534
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1636
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-659-1
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-3534

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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