{"cve":"CVE-2008-2365","nvd":{"published":"2008-06-30T21:41:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:53:38.440","status":"Modified","description":"Race condition in the ptrace and utrace support in the Linux kernel 2.6.9 through 2.6.25, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4, allows local users to cause a denial of service (oops) via a long series of PTRACE_ATTACH ptrace calls to another user's process that trigger a conflict between utrace_detach and report_quiescent, related to \"late ptrace_may_attach() check\" and \"race around &dead_engine_ops setting,\" a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-0771 and CVE-2008-1514.  NOTE: this issue might only affect kernel versions before 2.6.16.x.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-362"],"references":["http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5ecfbae093f0c37311e89b29bfc0c9d586eace87","http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f358166a9405e4f1d8e50d8f415c26d95505b6de","http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f5b40e363ad6041a96e3da32281d8faa191597b9","http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=117863520707703&w=2","http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0508.html"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel","redhat:enterprise_linux","redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:51:11.071189229+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2008-2365","score":0.00526,"percentile":0.44606,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}