Fedora 8/9 Linux Kernel 'utrace_control' NULL Pointer Dereference Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE: CVE-2008-3832 Fedora 8 and 9 Linux kernel is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to crash the affected kernel, denying service to legitimate users. Given the nature of this issue, attackers may also be able to execute arbitrary code, but this ha...

CVE-2008-3832

CVE-2008-3832 affects Fedora 8/9 Linux kernels patched for the utrace subsystem: a NULL pointer dereference in the utrace_control path can be triggered locally, causing a denial of service (kernel crash/hang). The vulnerable configurations are Fedora 8 before 2.6.26.5-28 and Fedora 9 before 2.6.2...