Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.

CVE-2008-2148 Details

Description

The utimensat system call (sys_utimensat) in Linux kernel 2.6.22 and other versions before 2.6.25.3 does not check file permissions when certain UTIME_NOW and UTIME_OMIT combinations are used, which allows local users to modify file times of arbitrary files, possibly leading to a denial of service.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f9dfda1ad0637a89a64d001cf81478bd8d9b6306	CVE
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.3	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.html	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/30198	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30241	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30818	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31107	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31628	CVE	Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42342	CVE
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0169	CVE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:167	CVE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29134	CVE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1	CVE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1543/references	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.25.y.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f9dfda1ad0637a89a64d001cf81478bd8d9b6306	[email protected]
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.25.3	[email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-06/msg00006.html	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/30198	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30241	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30818	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31107	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/31628	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42342	[email protected]
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0169	[email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:167	[email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29134	[email protected]
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1	[email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1543/references	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory

see all 30 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-264	Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
linux linux kernel	2.6.22 2.6.22.1 2.6.22.2 2.6.22.3 2.6.22.4
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.8:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.9:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.10:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.11:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.12:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.13:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.14:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.15:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.16:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.17:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.18:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.19:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.20:::::::* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.21:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Product

Versions

linux linux kernel

2.6.22

2.6.22.1

2.6.22.2

2.6.22.3

2.6.22.4

CPE

cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.6.22.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

No remediation found in references.

Change History

7 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 8, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 13, 2008	Initial Analysis	[email protected]