CVE-2007-3104 Information

Description

The sysfs_readdir function in the Linux kernel 2.6 as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.5 and other distributions allows users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) by dereferencing a null pointer to an inode in a dentry.

Reference

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242558 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00001.html http://osvdb.org/37115 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html http://secunia.com/advisories/25771 http://secunia.com/advisories/25838 http://secunia.com/advisories/26289 http://secunia.com/advisories/26643 http://secunia.com/advisories/26651 http://secunia.com/advisories/27912 http://secunia.com/advisories/28033 http://secunia.com/advisories/28643 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1428 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0089.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24631 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018289 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-508-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-509-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-510-1 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11233