Resource management errors in Linux kernel - CVE-2007-3104

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Resource management errors in Linux kernel - CVE-2007-3104

Published: June 26, 2007 / Updated: October 11, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU92867
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-3104
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The sysfs_readdir function in the Linux kernel 2.6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.5 and other distributions, allows users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) by dereferencing a null pointer to an inode in a dentry.


Affected software

Linux kernel
Ubuntu
linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu package)
linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2007-3104

Install update from vendor's repository.

linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu package) - update to 2.6.17.1-12.40
linux-source-2.6.20 (Ubuntu package) - update to 2.6.20-16.31

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