PublicDate: 2008-05-12 21:20:00 UTC
Candidate: CVE-2008-2148
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2148
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-625-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
 The sys_utimensat system call did not correctly check file permissions
 in certain situations.  A local attacker could exploit this to modify the
 file times of arbitrary files which could lead to a denial of service.
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: low
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: kees
CVSS: 

Patches_linux-source-2.6.15:
upstream_linux-source-2.6.15: released (2.6.26~rc1)
dapper_linux-source-2.6.15: not-affected
feisty_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE
gutsy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE
hardy_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE
devel_linux-source-2.6.15: DNE

Patches_linux-source-2.6.20:
upstream_linux-source-2.6.20: released (2.6.26~rc1)
dapper_linux-source-2.6.20: DNE
feisty_linux-source-2.6.20: not-affected
gutsy_linux-source-2.6.20: DNE
hardy_linux-source-2.6.20: DNE
devel_linux-source-2.6.20: DNE

Patches_linux-source-2.6.22:
upstream_linux-source-2.6.22: released (2.6.26~rc1)
dapper_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE
feisty_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE
gutsy_linux-source-2.6.22: released (2.6.22-15.56)
hardy_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE
devel_linux-source-2.6.22: DNE

Patches_linux:
 upstream: 02c6be615f1fcd37ac5ed93a3ad6692ad8991cd9
upstream_linux: released (2.6.26~rc1)
dapper_linux: DNE
feisty_linux: DNE
gutsy_linux: DNE
hardy_linux: released (2.6.24-19.36)
devel_linux: not-affected