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CVE-2007-4130

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-02-05 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Linux kernel 2.6.9 before 2.6.9-67 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 on Itanium (ia64) does not properly handle page faults during NUMA memory access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via invalid arguments to set_mempolicy in an MPOL_BIND operation.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 4

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0055.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28748
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27556
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=179665
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11437
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0055.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28748
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27556
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=179665
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11437

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