RedhatCVELIST:CVE-2008-1669CVE-2008-1669
Linux kernel before 2.6.25.2 does not apply a certain protection mechanism for fcntl functionality, which allows local users to (1) execute code in parallel or (2) exploit a race condition to obtain βre-ordered access to the descriptor table.β
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