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CVE-2008-0010

The copy_from_user_mmap_sem function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 through 2.6.24 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which allow local users to read from arbitrary kernel memory locations.

Published:Feb 12, 2008

Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026

EPS:Feb 12, 2008

EPSS Score:0.00225

CVSS Score:2.1

Affected Products

Vendor

Product

Action

Vendor

Linux

Product

Linux Kernel

Linux

Linux Kernel

Exploits

http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0026-vmsplice_to_kernel.txt http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.1 http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0026-vmsplice_to_kernel.txt http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.1 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5092 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5093

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables

CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection

CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting

CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection

CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection

CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering

CAPEC-120 Double Encoding

CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values

CAPEC-135 Format String Injection

CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection

CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow

CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation

CAPEC-182 Flash Injection

CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch

CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client

CAPEC-23 File Content Injection

CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads

CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads

CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow

CAPEC-250 XML Injection

CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data

CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-28 Fuzzing

CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters

CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies

CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion

CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers

CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links

CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags

CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion

CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof

CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes

CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash

CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS

CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery

CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()

CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection

CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-72 URL Encoding

CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename

CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call

CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering

CAPEC-83 XPath Injection

CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting

CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection

CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

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References

http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0026-vmsplice_to_kernel.txt

http://secunia.com/advisories/28835

http://secunia.com/advisories/28875

http://secunia.com/advisories/28896

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1494

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.1

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487982/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27704

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27796

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0487/references

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5093

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00254.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00255.html

http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0026-vmsplice_to_kernel.txt

http://secunia.com/advisories/28835

http://secunia.com/advisories/28875

http://secunia.com/advisories/28896

http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1494

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.24.1

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487982/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27704

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27796

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0487/references

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5093

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00254.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00255.html

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