National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3104
Original release date:06/26/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (10/18/2007)
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This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.
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External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-510-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-509-1
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-508-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018289
External Source: BID
Name: 24631
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0089
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1428
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28643
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28033
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27912
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26651
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26643
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26289
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25838
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25771
Type: Advisory
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0488
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 37115
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2007:064
External Source: MISC
Name: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242558