CVE-2007-3731

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2007-07-15
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
248324: CVE-2007-3731 NULL pointer dereference triggered by ptrace

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2007-3731 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, or 4.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2007:0940 2007-10-22

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