Bug 1758987 (CVE-2007-2764)

Summary:	CVE-2007-2764 kernel: denial of service via unspecified vectors
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, airlied, bdettelb, bhu, blc, brdeoliv, bskeggs, dhoward, dvlasenk, esammons, fhrbata, hdegoede, hkrzesin, iboverma, ichavero, itamar, jarodwilson, jeremy, jforbes, jglisse, jlelli, john.j5live, jonathan, josef, jross, jschorr, jshortt, jstancek, jwboyer, kernel-maint, kernel-mgr, labbott, lgoncalv, linville, masami256, matt, mchehab, mcressma, mjg59, mlangsdo, nmurray, plougher, rt-maint, rvrbovsk, steved, williams
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1758988
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Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-10-07 06:16:50 UTC

A vulnerability was found in the embedded Linux kernel in certain Sun-Brocade SilkWorm switches before 20070516 does not properly handle a situation in which a non-root user creates a kernel process, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (oops and device reboot) via unspecified vectors.

Reference:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24036

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-10-07 06:17:09 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1758988]

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2019-10-07 14:19:26 UTC

This CVE from 2007 has was never an impact on any currently supported versions of Fedora.

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-01-21 14:09:53 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-2764