CVE-2008-2148 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-2148 at MITRE

Description

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

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	3.6
Vector	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Local
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 389151 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2008:030, published Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 04:06:29 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:18 2025