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HistoryOct 15, 2008 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2008-4554

2008-10-1500:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
8

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.4%

The do_splice_from function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel before
2.6.27 does not reject file descriptors that have the O_APPEND flag set,
which allows local users to bypass append mode and make arbitrary changes
to other locations in the file.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu8.04noarchlinux< 2.6.24-22.45UNKNOWN
ubuntu7.10noarchlinux-source-2.6.22< 2.6.22-16.60UNKNOWN

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.4%