CVE-2007-4130

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - Denial of Service via set_mempolicy MPOL_BIND Operation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The Linux kernel 2.6.9 before 2.6.9-67 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 on Itanium (ia64) does not properly handle page faults during NUMA memory access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via invalid arguments to set_mempolicy in an MPOL_BIND operation.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11437
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27556
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/28748
Patch vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0055.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0047
EPSS Percentile 37.4%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
redhat/enterprise_linux 4.0 (3 CPE variants)
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 4
Published Feb 05, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026