CVE-2007-3739
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-09-14 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 14:28
Severity ?
Summary
mm/mmap.c in the hugetlb kernel, when run on PowerPC systems, does not prevent stack expansion from entering into reserved kernel page memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via unspecified vectors.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/29/180
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/23955
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/26760Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/26955
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/26978
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27436
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27747
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/27913
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/29058
secalert@redhat.comhttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-474.htm
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1378
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0705.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0939.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1049.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-518-1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253313
secalert@redhat.comhttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36592
secalert@redhat.comhttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11455
Impacted products
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