CVE-2007-5087

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: 2007-09-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The ATM module in the Linux kernel before 2.4.35.3, when CLIP support is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by reading /proc/net/atm/arp before the CLIP module has been loaded.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 2.4.35.2

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.35.y.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b7ae15e7707050baafe5a35e3d4f2d175197d222
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.35.3
http://lwn.net/Articles/251162/
http://osvdb.org/39237
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25798
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3246
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.4.35.y.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=b7ae15e7707050baafe5a35e3d4f2d175197d222
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.35.3
http://lwn.net/Articles/251162/
http://osvdb.org/39237
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25798
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3246

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