Security Advisory

CVE-2008-1514

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-03-26 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 08:24:42
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and other versions before 2.6.27-rc6, on s390 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via the user-area-padding test from the ptrace testsuite in 31-bit mode, which triggers an invalid dereference.