CVE-2007-4130 Information

Description

The Linux kernel 2.6.9 before 2.6.9-67 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 on Itanium (ia64) does not properly handle page faults during NUMA memory access which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via invalid arguments to set_mempolicy in an MPOL_BIND operation.

Reference

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0055.html http://secunia.com/advisories/28748 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27556 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=179665 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11437