Tracker / CVE-2008-4554
CVE-2008-4554
Medium 4.6
The do_splice_from function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not reject file descriptors that have the O_APPEND flag set, which allows local users to bypass append mode and make arbitrary changes to other locations in the file.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 2.6.26.5 |
Analysis
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