CVE-2007-3731
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 17, 2007
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Jul 12, 2007
Description
The Linux kernel 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 does not properly handle an invalid LDT segment selector in %cs (the xcs field) during ptrace single-step operations, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and OOPS) via certain code that makes ptrace PTRACE_SETREGS and PTRACE_SINGLESTEP requests, related to the TRACE_IRQS_ON function, and possibly related to the arch_ptrace function.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 25801vdb-entry
- http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8765
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=a10d9a71bafd3a283da240d2868e71346d2aef6f
- 37286vdb-entry
- RHSA-2007:0940vendor-advisory
- 29159third-party-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=29eb51101c02df517ca64ec472d7501127ad1da8
- 27322third-party-advisory
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0094
- 26978third-party-advisory
- 20080229 rPSA-2008-0094-1 kernelmailing-list
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2304
- USN-518-1vendor-advisory
- 26955third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10394vdb-entrysignature
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=248324
- 26935third-party-advisory
- DSA-1378vendor-advisory
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