Resource management errors in Linux kernel - CVE-2007-3104
Published: June 26, 2007 / Updated: October 11, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU92867
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-3104
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2007-3104
Install update from vendor's repository.
Sources
- http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242558
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00001.html
- http://osvdb.org/37115
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25771
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25838
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26289
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26643
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26651
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27912
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28033
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28643
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1428
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0089.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24631
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018289
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-508-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-509-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-510-1
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11233