4.6 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.1%
arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c in the Virtual Dynamic Shared Objects (vDSO)
implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21 does not properly check
boundaries, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial
of service via unspecified vectors, related to the install_special_mapping,
syscall, and syscall32_nopage functions.