CVE-2008-3832 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the utrace subsystem of the Linux kernel, specifically affecting Fedora 8 and 9. A local attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and system crash or hang by calling the utrace_control function. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a medium severity with local access required and a complete impact on availability. While no active exploitation is reported, exploit code for this specific issue is available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:fedora:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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