VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-5701

CVSS score4.7 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.40%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-12-22
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

Array index error in arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc8 on 64-bit MIPS platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an o32 syscall with a small syscall number, which leads to an attempted read operation outside the bounds of the syscall table.

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