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CVE-2007-6434

Impact:: Important
Public Date:: 2007-12-04

Bugzilla:: 426365: CVE-2007-6434 VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Linux kernel 2.6.23 allows local users to create low pages in virtual userspace memory and bypass mmap_min_addr protection via a crafted executable file that calls the do_brk function.

Find out more about CVE-2007-6434 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5 or Red Hat Enterprise MRG.

Last Modified 2018-04-30T22:17:06+00:00

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