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CVE-2007-5500

Impact:: Important
Public Date:: 2007-11-16

Bugzilla:: 382161: CVE-2007-5500 kernel hang via userspace PTRACE+waitid

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The wait_task_stopped function in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23.8 checks a TASK_TRACED bit instead of an exit_state value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (machine crash) via unspecified vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Find out more about CVE-2007-5500 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel)	RHSA-2008:0055	2008-01-31

Last Modified 2018-04-30T22:50:44+00:00

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