CVE-2007-4133

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2006-10-28
Bugzilla:
253926: CVE-2007-4133 prio_tree unit kernel panic

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The (1) hugetlb_vmtruncate_list and (2) hugetlb_vmtruncate functions in fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19-rc4 perform certain prio_tree calculations using HPAGE_SIZE instead of PAGE_SIZE units, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via unspecified vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2007-4133 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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