CVE-2008-2812

moderate-risk
Published 2008-07-09

The Linux kernel before 2.6.25.10 does not properly perform tty operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly gain privileges via vectors involving NULL pointer dereference of function pointers in (1) hamradio/6pack.c, (2) hamradio/mkiss.c, (3) irda/irtty-sir.c, (4) ppp_async.c, (5) ppp_synctty.c, (6) slip.c, (7) wan/x25_asy.c, and (8) wireless/strip.c in drivers/net/.

Do I need to act?

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0.10% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.8/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (20)

Linux Desktop
Expanded Meet-Me Conferencing
Sip Enablement Services
Communication Manager
Intuity Audix Lx
Meeting Exchange
Message Networking
Messaging Storage Server

Affected Vendors

Opensuse Debian Canonical Novell Avaya Suse Linux

References (66)

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commitdi...
Broken Link http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.10
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00007.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00009.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00012.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00000.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00003.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00008.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/30982
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/31048
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/31202
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/31229
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/31341
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/31551
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/31614
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/31685
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/32103
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/32370
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/32759
and 46 more references
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moderate-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 20/34 · Moderate