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Tracker / CVE-2008-5182

CVE-2008-5182

Medium 6.9

The inotify functionality in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.28-rc5 might allow local users to gain privileges via unknown vectors related to race conditions in inotify watch removal and umount.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.28

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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