CVE-2008-1669: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 "re-ordered access to the descriptor table."

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.6.0 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.2 only; version 2.6.3 only; version 2.6.4 only; version 2.6.5 only; …

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