National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3104

Overview

The sysfs_readdir function in the Linux kernel 2.6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.5 and other distributions, allows users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) by dereferencing a null pointer to an inode in a dentry.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/18/2007)

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

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-510-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-510-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-509-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-509-1

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-508-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-508-1

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018289

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018289

External Source: BID

Name: 24631

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24631

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2008:0089

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0089.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1428

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1428

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm

Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28643

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28643

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28033

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28033

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27912

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27912

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26651

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26651

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26643

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26643

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 26289

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26289

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25838

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25838

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 25771

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25771

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2007:0488

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11233

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11233

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 37115

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/37115

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2007:064

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00001.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242558

Hyperlink:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242558

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11233

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11233