CVE-2007-3104

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: 2007-06-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The sysfs_readdir function in the Linux kernel 2.6, as used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4.5 and other distributions, allows users to cause a denial of service (kernel OOPS) by dereferencing a null pointer to an inode in a dentry.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242558
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-12/msg00001.html
http://osvdb.org/37115
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0488.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25771
http://secunia.com/advisories/25838
http://secunia.com/advisories/26289
http://secunia.com/advisories/26643
http://secunia.com/advisories/26651
http://secunia.com/advisories/27912
http://secunia.com/advisories/28033
http://secunia.com/advisories/28643

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