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CVE-2008-4307

Date: January 13, 2009

Race condition in the do_setlk function in fs/nfs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors resulting in an interrupted RPC call that leads to a stray FL_POSIX lock, related to improper handling of a race between fcntl and close in the EINTR case.

Severity Score

5.1

Related Resources (25)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34962

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4307

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0459.html

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0451.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0473.html

Url: http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0016.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35011

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100/0/threaded

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9233

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34981

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35015

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4307

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.26

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/37471

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c4d7c402b788b73dc24f1e54a57f89d3dc5eb7bc

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7728

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-4307

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/34917

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/13/1

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456282

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-4307

Severity Score

5.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

CWE-362

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.1
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.0
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2008-4307

Date: January 13, 2009

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CVSS v3.1

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