CVE-2007-0997

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

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.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.17, 2.6.17-rc1, 2.6.17-rc2, 2.6.17-rc3, 2.6.17-rc4, 2.6.17-rc5 (+7)

References

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/17/140
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/17/140

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