CVE-2008-1615: Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Linux kernel 2.6.18, and possibly other versions, when running on AMD64 architectures, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain ptrace calls.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version as_4 only; version es_4 only; version ws_4 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 4 only

Published 2008-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.