CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2007-2878

Published: May 29, 2007 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
UNTRIAGED

The VFAT compat ioctls in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21.2, when run on a 64-bit system, allow local users to corrupt a kernel_dirent struct and cause a denial of service (system crash) via unknown vectors.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.21.1 (including) 2.6.21.1 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.9-55.0.12.EL *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RedHat kernel-0:2.6.18-8.1.10.el5 *
Linux-source-2.6.15 Ubuntu dapper *
Linux-source-2.6.17 Ubuntu edgy *
Linux-source-2.6.20 Ubuntu feisty *

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