CVE-2008-5701: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.7. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Array index error in arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.28-rc8 on 64-bit MIPS platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via an o32 syscall with a small syscall number, which leads to an attempted read operation outside the bounds of the syscall table.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 4.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 2.6.28; version 2.6.28 only

Published 2008-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.