CVE-2007-3107 Information

Description

The signal handling in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22 including 2.6.2 when running on PowerPC systems using HTX allows local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving floating point corruption and concurrency related to clearing of MSR bits.

Reference

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245580 http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22 http://osvdb.org/37118 http://secunia.com/advisories/25955 http://secunia.com/advisories/25963 http://secunia.com/advisories/26664 http://secunia.com/advisories/27227 http://secunia.com/advisories/28706 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_51_kernel.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_53_kernel.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0595.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24845 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018347 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-574-1 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/35383 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9936