CVSS 3.1
7.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2008-2812
The Linux kernel before 2.6.25.10 does not properly perform tty operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via vectors involving NULL pointer dereference of function pointers in (1) hamradio/6pack.c, (2) hamradio/mkiss.c, (3) irda/irtty-sir.c, (4) ppp_async.c, (5) ppp_synctty.c, (6) slip.c, (7) wan/x25_asy.c, and (8) wireless/strip.c in drivers/net/.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 36% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- avaya:communication_manager
- avaya:expanded_meet-me_conferencing
- avaya:intuity_audix_lx
- avaya:meeting_exchange
- avaya:message_networking
- avaya:messaging_storage_server
- avaya:proactive_contact
- avaya:sip_enablement_services
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- novell:linux_desktop
- opensuse:opensuse
- suse:suse_linux_enterprise_desktop
- suse:suse_linux_enterprise_server
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=2a739dd53ad7ee010ae6e155438507f329dce788
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.10
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00009.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html