CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0006

1.9 LOW Published 2007-02-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-02-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The key serial number collision avoidance code in the key_alloc_serial function in Linux kernel 2.6.9 up to 2.6.20 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors that trigger a null dereference, as originally reported as "spinlock CPU recursion."

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.20) • linux linux kernel 2.6.9

References