CVE-2007-3107

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: 2007-07-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The signal handling in the Linux kernel before 2.6.22, including 2.6.2, when running on PowerPC systems using HTX, allows local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving floating point corruption and concurrency, related to clearing of MSR bits.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.6.21.7; 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.6.11.1 (+165)

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245580
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22
http://osvdb.org/37118
http://secunia.com/advisories/25955
http://secunia.com/advisories/25963
http://secunia.com/advisories/26664
http://secunia.com/advisories/27227
http://secunia.com/advisories/28706
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_51_kernel.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_53_kernel.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0595.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24845

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