CVE-2007-3739 Information

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.

Reference

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/29/180 http://secunia.com/advisories/23955 http://secunia.com/advisories/26760 http://secunia.com/advisories/26955 http://secunia.com/advisories/26978 http://secunia.com/advisories/27436 http://secunia.com/advisories/27747 http://secunia.com/advisories/27913 http://secunia.com/advisories/29058 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-474.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1378 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0705.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0939.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1049.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-518-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253313 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36592 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11455