CVE-2008-1514: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c in Linux kernel 2.6.9, and other versions before 2.6.27-rc6, on s390 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via the user-area-padding test from the ptrace testsuite in 31-bit mode, which triggers an invalid dereference.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.27; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.9 only; version 2.6.10 only; version 2.6.11 only; version 2.6.11.1 only; …

Published 2008-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.