Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2008-3527

arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c in the Virtual Dynamic Shared Objects (vDSO) implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21 does not properly check boundaries, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the install_special_mapping, syscall, and syscall32_nopage functions.

EPSS: 0.004 (30.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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