CVE-2007-0997 (GCVE-0-2007-0997)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-09-18 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:36
VLAI
Summary
Race condition in the tee (sys_tee) system call in the Linux kernel 2.6.17 through 2.6.17.6 might allow local users to cause a denial of service (system crash), obtain sensitive information (kernel memory contents), or gain privileges via unspecified vectors related to a potentially dropped ipipe lock during a race between two pipe readers.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/17/140 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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