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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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