CVSS 3.1
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2008-4302
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
fs/splice.c in the splice subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22.2 does not properly handle a failure of the add_to_page_cache_lru function, and subsequently attempts to unlock a page that was not locked, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel BUG and system crash), as demonstrated by the fio I/O tool.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 49% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-667
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- linux:linux_kernel
- redhat:enterprise_linux
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.26.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=6a860c979b35469e4d77da781a96bdb2ca05ae64
- http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.2
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/168
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32237