CVE-2008-3832: Red Hat Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A certain Fedora patch for the utrace subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.5-28 on Fedora 8, and before 2.6.26.5-45 on Fedora 9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash or hang) via a call to the utrace_control function.

Affected products

• Red Hat Fedora: version 8 only; version 9 only

Published 2008-10-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.