CVE-2008-2148

The utimensat system call sysutimensat in Linux kernel 2.6.22 and other versions before 2.6.25.3 does not check file permissions when certain UTIMENOW and UTIMEOMIT combinations are used, which allows local users to modify file times of arbitrary files, possibly leading to a denial of service...

CVE-2008-2148

CVE-2008-2148 affects the Linux kernel: UTIME_NOW/UTIME_OMIT handling in sys_utimensat in 2.6.22 and older than 2.6.25.3 allows a local user to modify the timestamps of arbitrary files, potentially causing a denial of service. The root cause is improper permission checks for certain UTIME_NOW/UTI...