Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2008-2148

The utimensat system call (sys_utimensat) in Linux kernel 2.6.22 and other versions before 2.6.25.3 does not check file permissions when certain UTIME_NOW and UTIME_OMIT combinations are used, which allows local users to modify file times of arbitrary files, possibly leading to a denial of service.

EPSS: 0.004 (31.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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