4.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2007-3104

Published: 26/06/2007 Updated: 11/10/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 436
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

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.

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Vendor Advisories

Several local and remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: This is an update to DSA 1428-1 which omitted a reference to CVE-2007-5904 CVE-2007-3104 Eric Sandeen pro ...
A flaw in the sysfs_readdir function allowed a local user to cause a denial of service by dereferencing a NULL pointer (CVE-2007-3104) ...
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