CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-0997

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2007-09-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-09-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the tee (sys_tee) system call in the Linux kernel 2.6.17 through 2.6.17.6 might allow local users to cause a denial of service (system crash), obtain sensitive information (kernel memory contents), or gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to a potentially dropped ipipe lock during a race between two pipe readers.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.6.17 • linux linux kernel 2.6.17.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.17.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.17.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.17.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.17.5 • linux linux kernel 2.6.17.6

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References