CVE-2007-3104

Linux Kernel - Resource Management Error

Title source: rule

Description

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.

References (21)

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0089.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-509-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-510-1

[Vendor Advisory] http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm

[Issue Tracking] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242558

[Mailing List] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00001.html

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://osvdb.org/37115

[Vendor Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/25771

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/25838

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/26289

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/26643

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/26651

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/27912

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/28033

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/28643

[Vendor Advisory] http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-508-1

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24631

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1428

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11233

... and 1 more

Scores

EPSS 0.0014

EPSS Percentile 34.5%

Classification

CWE

CWE-399

Status draft

Affected Products (1)

linux/linux_kernel

Timeline

Published Jun 26, 2007

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026