CVE-2008-3832: Null Pointer Dereference

First published: Wed Oct 01 2008(Updated: )

A certain Fedora patch for the utrace subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.5-28 on Fedora 8, and before 2.6.26.5-45 on Fedora 9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash or hang) via a call to the utrace_control function.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com

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