CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2148

Published: May 12, 2008 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
3.6 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22 (including) 2.6.22 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.1 (including) 2.6.22.1 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.2 (including) 2.6.22.2 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.3 (including) 2.6.22.3 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.4 (including) 2.6.22.4 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.5 (including) 2.6.22.5 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.6 (including) 2.6.22.6 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.7 (including) 2.6.22.7 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.8 (including) 2.6.22.8 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.9 (including) 2.6.22.9 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.10 (including) 2.6.22.10 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.11 (including) 2.6.22.11 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.12 (including) 2.6.22.12 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.13 (including) 2.6.22.13 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.14 (including) 2.6.22.14 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.15 (including) 2.6.22.15 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.16 (including) 2.6.22.16 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.17 (including) 2.6.22.17 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.18 (including) 2.6.22.18 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.19 (including) 2.6.22.19 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.20 (including) 2.6.22.20 (including)
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.22.21 (including) 2.6.22.21 (including)

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