CVE-2008-4307 (GCVE-0-2008-4307)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-01-13 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:08
VLAI?
Summary
Race condition in the do_setlk function in fs/nfs/file.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors resulting in an interrupted RPC call that leads to a stray FL_POSIX lock, related to improper handling of a race between fcntl and close in the EINTR case.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/34962 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/13/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/37471 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0459.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-20… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/Chang… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/35015 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35011 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507985/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456282 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://secunia.com/advisories/34981 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/34917 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0473.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-04… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3316 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
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