CVE-2007-0771 Information

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.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/35927 http://secunia.com/advisories/25080 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017979 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0169.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23720 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=227952 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=228816 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34128 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9447