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Tracker / CVE-2008-1294

CVE-2008-1294

Low 2.1

Linux kernel 2.6.17, and other versions before 2.6.22, does not check when a user attempts to set RLIMIT_CPU to 0 until after the change is made, which allows local users to bypass intended resource limits.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.21

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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