PT-2007-2221 · Linux+1 · Linux Kernel+1

Published 2007-04-30 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2007-0771

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions 2.6.18 and other versions

Description The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system hang, related to "MT exec + utrace attach spin failure mode". This can be demonstrated using ptrace-thrash.c.

Recommendations For Linux kernel version 2.6.18 and other affected versions, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-0771

RHSA-2007:0169

RHSA-2007_0169

Affected Products

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

References · 15

• http://secunia.com/advisories/25080 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0771 · Security Note
• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0169.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34128 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-1388 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-0771 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/22904 · Note
• http://osvdb.org/35927 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9447 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0169 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228816 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227952 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/23720 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-1000 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017979 · Note