CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-5500

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2007-11-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-11-20
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 wait_task_stopped function in the Linux kernel before 2.6.23.8 checks a TASK_TRACED bit instead of an exit_state value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (machine crash) via unspecified vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.23.7)

References