CVE-2007-1000

Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-03-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The ipv6_getsockopt_sticky function in net/ipv6/ipv6_sockglue.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.20.2 allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory via certain getsockopt calls that trigger a NULL dereference.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.20.1

References

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8134
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2787
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2788
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-May/0001.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24493
http://secunia.com/advisories/24518
http://secunia.com/advisories/24777
http://secunia.com/advisories/24901
http://secunia.com/advisories/25080
http://secunia.com/advisories/25099
http://secunia.com/advisories/25691
http://secunia.com/advisories/26133

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