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CVE-2007-0773

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-06-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Linux kernel before 2.6.9-42.0.8 in Red Hat 4.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS from null dereference) via fput in a 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit x86 systems, an incomplete fix of CVE-2005-3044.1.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.4
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 4.4

References

• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243252
• http://osvdb.org/37128
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25838
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26289
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27227
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-287.htm
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_53_kernel.html
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11267
• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243252
• http://osvdb.org/37128
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html

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