CVE-2007-3739

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.7 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: 2007-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

mm/mmap.c in the hugetlb kernel, when run on PowerPC systems, does not prevent stack expansion from entering into reserved kernel page memory, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 5.0

References

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/29/180
http://secunia.com/advisories/23955
http://secunia.com/advisories/26760
http://secunia.com/advisories/26955
http://secunia.com/advisories/26978
http://secunia.com/advisories/27436
http://secunia.com/advisories/27747
http://secunia.com/advisories/27913
http://secunia.com/advisories/29058
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-474.htm
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1378
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1504

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