CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0771

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2007-05-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-05-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The utrace support in Linux kernel 2.6.18, and other versions, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) related to "MT exec + utrace_attach spin failure mode," as demonstrated by ptrace-thrash.c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.18 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.18.4 • redhat enterprise linux 5.0

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