{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2008-07-26T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode",
    "id" : "457507",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457507"
  },
  "details" : [ "The shmem_delete_inode function in mm/shmem.c in the tmpfs implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.26.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain sequence of file create, remove, and overwrite operations, as demonstrated by the insserv program, related to allocation of \"useless pages\" and improper maintenance of the i_blocks count." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, and 5.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2008-10-07T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:0857",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-81.el5rt"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-3534\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3534" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-3534",
  "csaw" : false
}