CVE-2007-1865

Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 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: 2007-09-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The ipv6_getsockopt_sticky function in the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Beta 5.1.0 allows local users to obtain sensitive information (kernel memory contents) via a negative value of the len parameter. NOTE: this issue has been disputed in a bug comment, stating that "len is ignored when copying header info to the user's buffer.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.1.0-beta

References

http://osvdb.org/45909
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232045
http://osvdb.org/45909
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232045

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