{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2008-10-09T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: don't allow splice() to files opened with O_APPEND",
    "id" : "466707",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=466707"
  },
  "details" : [ "The do_splice_from function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27 does not reject file descriptors that have the O_APPEND flag set, which allows local users to bypass append mode and make arbitrary changes to other locations in the file." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "MRG for RHEL-5",
    "release_date" : "2009-01-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2009:0009",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:1::el5",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.24.7-93.el5rt"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2008-12-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2008:1017",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-92.1.22.el5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4554\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4554" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2008-4554",
  "csaw" : false
}