CVE-2007-2878

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The VFAT compat ioctls in the Linux kernel before 2.6.21.2, when run on a 64-bit system, allow local users to corrupt a kernel_dirent struct and cause a denial of service (system crash) via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.21.1

References

http://osvdb.org/35926
http://secunia.com/advisories/25505
http://secunia.com/advisories/26133
http://secunia.com/advisories/26139
http://secunia.com/advisories/26760
http://secunia.com/advisories/27436
http://secunia.com/advisories/27747
http://secunia.com/advisories/28626
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-474.htm
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1479
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.21.2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0705.html

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