CVE-2007-0997

2007-09-1819:00:00

redhat

www.cve.org

race condition

linux kernel

denial of service

sensitive information

privileges

ipipe lock

AI Score

6.4

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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.

References

kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18

lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/17/140