CVE-2007-0771

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

The utrace support in Linux kernel 2.6.18, and other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) related to "MT exec + utrace_attach spin failure mode," as demonstrated by ptrace-thrash.c.

The utrace support in Linux kernel 2.6.18, and other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) related to "MT exec + utrace_attach spin failure mode," as demonstrated by ptrace-thrash.c.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-05-02 22:19:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-11 01:31:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 2.6.18

2.6.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.18 Release Candidate 1

2.6.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.18 Release Candidate 2

2.6.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.18 Release Candidate 3

2.6.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.18 Release Candidate 4

2.6.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.18 Release Candidate 5

2.6.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.18 Release Candidate 6

2.6.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.18 Release Candidate 7

2.6.18

Linux Kernel 2.6.18.1

2.6.18.1

Linux Kernel 2.6.18.2

2.6.18.2

Linux Kernel 2.6.18.3

2.6.18.3

Linux Kernel 2.6.18.4

2.6.18.4

References

35927

25080

Vendor Advisory

1017979

RHSA-2007:0169

Patch, Vendor Advisory

23720

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227952

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228816

kernel-utracesupport-dos(34128)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9447

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