CVE-2008-0600

CVE-2008-0600 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The vmsplice_to_pipe function in Linux kernel 2.6.17 through 2.6.24.1 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which allows local users to gain root privileges via crafted arguments in a vmsplice system call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-0009 and CVE-2008-0010.

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