{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2008-05-06T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: add rcu_read_lock() to fcheck() in both dnotify, locks.c and fix fcntl store/load race in locks.c",
    "id" : "443433",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443433"
  },
  "details" : [ "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_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3",
    "release_date" : "2008-05-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0211",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.4.21-57.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2008-05-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0237",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-67.0.15.EL"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-05-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0233",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-53.1.19.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-1669\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1669" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-1669",
  "csaw" : false
}