Linux kernel before 2.6.25.2 does not apply a certain protection mechanism for fcntl functionality, which allows local users to (1) execute code in parallel or (2) exploit a race condition to obtain "re-ordered access to the descriptor table."
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00002.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html cve-icon cve-icon
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http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1575 cve-icon cve-icon
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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1669 cve-icon
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History

No history.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2008-05-08T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T08:32:01.327Z

Reserved: 2008-04-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-1669

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-05-08T00:20:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:45:03.473

Link: CVE-2008-1669

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-1669 - Bugzilla