CVE-2008-2148

LowCVSS 3.6/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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 2.0 3.6/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: May 12, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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