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CVE-2008-5702

Date: December 22, 2008

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.

Severity Score

8.4

Related Resources (26)

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

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-715-1

Url: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/5/173

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47667

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/10/2

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/9

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35390

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/6

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/714-1/

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/17/20

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33706

Url: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.28-rc1

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5702

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0014.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33556

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/33756

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

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11344

Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.27.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7c2500f17d65092d93345f3996cf82ebca17e9ff

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

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

Url: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11399

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-5702

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-06/msg00000.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-5702

Severity Score

8.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Buffer Errors

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2008-5702

Date: December 22, 2008

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CVSS v3.1

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