CVE-2007-3100

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

usr/log.c in iscsid in open-iscsi (iscsi-initiator-utils) before 2.0-865 uses a semaphore with insecure permissions (world-writable/world-readable) for managing log messages using shared memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (hang) by grabbing the semaphore.

Affected products

RedHat Open Iscsi: through 2.0-864

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243719
http://osvdb.org/37270
http://secunia.com/advisories/25679
http://secunia.com/advisories/25749
http://secunia.com/advisories/26438
http://secunia.com/advisories/26543
http://support.novell.com/techcenter/psdb/187174044e1dbe78726bcf840f7530ed.html
http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/open-iscsi?rev=858&view=rev
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1314
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_17_sr.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0497.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24471

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