CVE-2007-3850 Information

Description

The eHCA driver in Linux kernel 2.6 before 2.6.22 when running on PowerPC does not properly map userspace resources which allows local users to read portions of physical address space.

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=721151d004dcf01a71b12bb6b893f9160284cf6e http://osvdb.org/45488 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0940.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27322 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26161 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10793