CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-3739

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2007-09-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-09-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-119, CWE-399

Description

mm/mmap.c in the hugetlb kernel, when run on PowerPC systems, does not prevent stack expansion from entering into reserved kernel page memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via unspecified vectors.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 5.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References