Vulnerability in AMD Amd64
CVE-2008-1615
Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, when running on AMD64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain ptrace calls.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (30.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 30.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- AMD Amd64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions as_4, es_4, ws_4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 4
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0275.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30962 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30294 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30368 (third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42278 (vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9563 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0237.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)